Medical

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakenings and the TV series House, Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENTS is a memoir from the Medical Director of Bellevue Hos...

Review\"[Koven] is rueful and delightful and keeps on building a careening and fascinating life... [Letter to a Young Female Physician] is a warm and wry ep...

25 Nurses, Both In Prose And Verse, Tells Why They Chose Nursing As A Career. Pt. 1. The Calling -- Pt. 2. The Reckoning -- Pt. 3. Reincarnation. Paula Serg...

When Celebrated Neuropsychologist Paul Broks's Wife Died Of Cancer, It Sparked A Journey Of Grief And Reflection That Traced A Lifelong Attempt To Understan...

The Call of Stories presents a study of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery. Here is Dr. Coles's study ...

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...

Great bookCategories: Health, Fitness & Dieting Diseases & Physical AilmentsCancer

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...

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...

A medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco’...

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...

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...

A Note from Dr. Cameron West ... First of all, for those of you who have read First Person Plural, thank you. Rikki, Kyle, and I have been very moved by t...

When all seems lost, where can hope be found? Katherine and Jay married right after college and sought adventure far from home in Los Angeles, CA. As they...

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 ...

The Heartrending Story Of A Midcentury American Family With Twelve Children, Six Of Them Diagnosed With Schizophrenia, That Became Science's Great Hope In T...

From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks—the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time—was irresistibly drawn t...

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put h...

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 ...

From the star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills comes an emotional and eye opening behind-the-scenes look at her descent into uncovering the mystery ...

"Three small children peep out, their eyes watching me from beneath tousled but clean hair. Their clothes seem to have been put on their bodies to cover the...

The international bestseller - an uplifting story of cross-generational living and friendship.Twenty-one-year-old nursing student Teun Toebes (both broke an...

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

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...

Jack Rhodes is a five-year advanced colon cancer survivor. Less than five percent of identical type cancer patients survive that long. His determination to ...

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...

The Inspiring Story Of Two Pioneering Suffragette Doctors Who Ran The Only Military Hospital Staffed Entirely By Women During World War I -- And Who Transfo...

Book by Roth Smythe, Benjamin, Winters, JasonCategories: Biographies & Memoirs Professionals & AcademicsMedical

A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challeng...

Medical technology meets rural values of simplicity, home health remedies, and unwavering faith in divine providence when a country-boy-turned-country-docto...

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...

'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 ...

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...

This book exposes the lies of the Abortion King and how he set out to decieve the public, politicians, and judges. You will learn of the Catholic Strategy ...

Brad Davis lived a life that mirrored the intensity of his star-making performance in the film Midnight Express. Filled with hope after defeating the alcoh...

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...

Baywatch star Gena Lee Nolin shares her story of undergoing and overcoming two decades of misdiagnosed thyroid disease and shows how the estimated 60 milli...

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...

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...

This lavishly illustrated, full color gift book provides undeniable proof that Canada has some of the most spectacular golf courses in the world.This book f...

An Explosive Book That Exposes The Abuses Of Institutionalization. How Many Brothers And Sisters Do You Have? It Was One Of The First Questions Kids Asked E...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Katherine And Jay Wolf Were A Young Couple Living The Dream In Southern California, But All Was Nearly Lost When Katherine Suffered A Shocking Near-fatal Br...

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...

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...