Medical (Incl. Patients)
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The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
$28.99 Add to cart“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles Times
This “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine”- Author: Nuila, Ricardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1501198041
- Language: English
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All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
$19.00 Add to cart“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”–Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times … [more below]
- Author: Wellons, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0593243382
- Language: English
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This Penis Business: A Memoir
$22.99 Add to cartCIRCUMCISION CUTS THROUGH US ALL. In her eye-opening memoir, Georganne Chapin exposes the business of medical circumcision. This unnecessary and most common pediatric surgery in the United States perm… [more below]
- Author: Chapin, Georganne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1950495450
- Language: English
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Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community–by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1984801457
- Language: English
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The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
$28.99 Read moreA tour de force that diagnoses the structural root of the violence that plagues us all.
Trauma surgeon and professor Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all: gunshot wounds, stabbings, and traumatic bra
- Author: Williams, Brian H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1506483127
- Language: English
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How to Starve Cancer: …and Then Kill It with Ferroptosis
$28.99 Add to cartAfter being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive. Rather than aiming to cure cancer, which in many cases is unachie… [more below]
- Author: McLelland, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0951951742
- Language: English
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The Tennis Partner
$18.99 Add to cartAn unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Opr
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Verghese, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20, 2011
- ISBN10: 0062116398
- Language: English
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Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter about Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew
$21.99 Add to cartWritten with dignity and grace in the form of a letter to her parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Dear Mom and Dad is that surprisingly poignant work that succeeds not only as a memoir but as a moving a
- Author: Davis, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 132409348X
- Language: English
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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
$19.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller
One of the top ten books of the year at The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Vulture/New York magazine
A best book of the year at Los Angeles Times, Time, N- Author: Aviv, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 125087291X
- Language: English
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When Breath Becomes Air
$27.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attemp… [more below]
- Author: Kalanithi, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 081298840X
- Language: English
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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (the Inspiration for the NBC Drama New Amsterdam)
$19.99 Add to cartIn the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this intensely involving memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients’ lives and … [more below]
- Author: Manheimer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1455503878
- Language: English
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author – “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”… [more below]
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0812973011
- Language: English
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The Unseen Body: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
$18.99 Read more“A fascinating, lyrical book… Reisman’s experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about the body and medicine–the rivers and tributaries, the fl
- Author: Reisman, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250246636
- Language: English
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The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found
$19.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes “a book about vision loss that becomes testimony to human courage, a moving memoir that offers perspective, comfort, and hope” (B… [more below]
- Author: Bruni, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1982108584
- Language: English
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
$29.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life–from the founder of The Iso… [more below]
- Author: Jaouad, Suleika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0399588582
- Language: English
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The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime
$34.98 Add to cartThe biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century–and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights
For forty years in the mid-nineteen- Author: Syrett, Nicholas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977451
- Language: English
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Two More Years
$18.95 Add to cartHe said the dreaded words, “I give you two years to live,” and my heart froze in time.
“Thank you for this most amazing, inspiring book; it is a very treasured read. It made me do a lot of thinking and
- Author: Stilson, Ec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: June 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1622537815
- Language: English
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Hope Does Not Disappoint: Stories from the life and Ministry of Dr. Bob Paeglow
$18.95 Add to cartDr. Bob Paeglow grew up in humble circumstances in the West Hill neighborhood of Albany, New York. His world came crashing down when as a young boy, his mother was taken away to the state mental hospi
- Author: Paeglow, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890433633
- Language: English
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A Breast Cancer Journey: Living It One Step at a Time
$26.65 Add to cartBreast cancer is a journey none of us wants to take. When we hear the words, “You have breast cancer,” our lives freeze. What do we do now?
Douglas was diagnosed with DCIS, stage zero breast cancer, af
- Author: Douglas, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1954805403
- Language: English
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
$19.99 Add to cartGifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Chi
- Author: Carson, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 28, 1992
- ISBN10: 0310546516
- Language: English
