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Tells The Heartbreaking Story Of Young Elena Desserich's Battle With Brain Cancer As Told Through The Eyes Of The Parents Who Survived Her. Brooke And Keith...

Tells The Heartbreaking Story Of Young Elena Desserich's Battle With Brain Cancer As Told Through The Eyes Of The Parents Who Survived Her. Brooke And Keith...

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum...

Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secret When Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. At least, that what’s Phyl...

Novelist and poet Judy Goldman's inspiring account of the mishap that left her husband paralyzed, how it tested their marriage, and their struggle to regai...

On The Morning Of December 10, 1996, Taylor, A Brain Scientist, Experienced A Massive Stroke. She Observed Her Own Mind Completely Deteriorate. Now She Shar...

New York Times bestseller. They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years. In January 1988 Martin Pistorius, ...

In February of 2009 the author heard five of the most terrifying words in the English language, "Mr. Metzler, you have cancer." Mike was given a 50/50 chanc...

This gripping inspirational memoir grapples with the tension between faith and science—and between death and hope—as a seasoned neurosurgeon faces insu...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Notable Book“Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Rev...

From Peter Mansbridge, the beloved former anchor of CBC's The National, and Mark Bulgutch, former CBC producer, comes a collection of first-person stories a...

The accessible, conversational autobiography of a successful physician who left his private practice because of the cruel realities of the American health ...

A James Herriot for the 21st century recounts his adventures as a newcomer to Newfoundland. When Andrew Peacock made the move from Ontario to Newfoundla...

The extraordinary memoir of a mother's love, commitment and nurturing, which allowed her son, originally diagnosed with severe autism, to flourish into a u...

The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well. We all die. Most of us spend the major...

In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine. This...

Traces The Author's Post-retirement Work As A Surgeon And Teacher In Such Remote Areas As Nepal And Ukraine, Illuminating The Challenges Of Working In Diffi...

Stories Are All We Have -- His Beautiful Eyes And My New Shoes -- In Rwanda, We Danced -- Searching For Humanitarian Space: Msf In Somalia -- Afghanistan: N...

Military doctors serving in Afghanistan usually spend their entire tour in the relatively safe confines of the main base. FOB Doc is the story of one Canadi...

An Emergency Wilderness Physician And Member Of The Hood River Crag Rats Rescue Operation Presents A Series Of Rescue And Recovery Stories, Offering Insight...

An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who helps suffering patients explore and fulfill the...

'april 28, 2014: I Won't Be Coming In Today, I Have Leukemia.' That's The Message Manjusha Pawagi, A Family Court Judge In Brampton, Ontario Relayed To Her ...

a Groundbreaking And Controversial Narrative Investigation Into The Science, History, Medical Politics, And Patient Experience Of Lyme Disease Told By A S...

'She's not going anywhere. Her heart is struggling. She's not stable enough to move' Lizzie couldn't believe it. She had just gone to the hospital for a qui...

His Name Was Bernard Spilsbury - And, Through His Use Of Cutting-edge Science, He Single-handedly Brought Criminal Investigations Into The Modern Age. Start...

A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night’s rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secr...

her Name Was Henrietta Lacks, But Scientists Know Her As Hela. She Was A Poor Southern Tobacco Farmer Who Worked The Same Land As Her Slave Ancestors, Yet...

she Showed Me What One Set-on-fire Human Being Can Do To Shift The Consciousness Of The World. —sister Helen Prejean, Author Of dead Man Walking kirkus Rev...

ICU nurse and bestselling author Tilda Shalof learns what nursing beyond the hospital really means. For the 350,000 professional nurses in Canada and 3 mill...

New York Times bestseller. They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years. In January 1988 Martin Pistorius, ...

Watch an interview with DJ on CNN Listen to Ralph Savarese's interview on NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show" Visit the book's website: www.reasonable-people.com...

Praised by everyone from Bernie Siegel to Daniel Goleman to Larry Dossey, Rachel Remen has a unique perspective on healing rooted in her background as a phy...

The 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist, International Bestseller, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2017!“Marsh has retired, which mean...

When you’re the only veterinarian in an area that’s 130 miles long and has a coast on either side, you never know what each new day might bring. A cow ...

One Doctor's Fight to End an American EpidemicGoldberger's War chronicles one of the U.S. Public Health Service's most renowned heroes--an immigrant Jew wh...

I was a Family Doctor/Surgeon on the Fort Peck Indian reservation in Montana for four years in 1962-6.This book is a collection of stories about my experien...

Praised by everyone from Bernie Siegel to Daniel Goleman to Larry Dossey, Rachel Remen has a unique perspective on healing rooted in her background as a phy...

An engrossing story of a bright John Hopkins graduate who fell in love with Newfoundland as a student, and who stayed to become the medical care system in n...

An Account Of The Author's Struggle With A Rare Brain-attacking Autoimmune Disease Traces How She Woke Up In A Hospital Room With No Memory Of Baffling Psyc...

Weaving together family history, genetic discovery, and scenes from her life, Ami McKay tells the compelling, true-science story of her own family's unsettl...

A story never before told and a memoir to help change our understanding of the world around us, 13-year-old Naoki Higashida's astonishing, empathetic book ...

Title: Tell Me Where It Hurts( A Day of Humor Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon) Binding: Paperback Author: NickTrout Publisher: BroadwayBook...

From the stars of the Netflix documentary Life in the Doghouse and founders of one of the most recognized rescue organizations in the world, the poignant ...

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A SCIENTIST’S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben ...

As Soon As Adam Kay Set Foot On A Hospital Ward For The First Time, He Realised There's Quite A Lot They Don't Teach You At Medical School ... His Diaries F...