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  • The Gift of Life

    The Reality Behind Donor Organ Retrieval

    by Traci Graf ...
    "Organ transplants are a very controversial and unique area of medicine. Those of us who work as Transplant Coordinators were frequently referred to by hospital staff as 'organ vultures' behind our backs, but also many times within earshot. I felt this reference to extremely ugly birds was unfair and short sighted. I did say once in a while to a difficult staff person, 'if your kid needed a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Doctor, Doctor: Incredible True Tales From a GP's Surgery

    by Dr Rosemary Leonard ...
    In DOCTOR, DOCTOR, Dr Rosemary writes with warmth, humour and honesty as she recalls the stories of 20 of her most memorable patients from her 25 years working as a GP in south London. These include an eco-protestor with appendicitis, an octogenarian nymphomaniac, a teenager in labour with a baby she didn't know about, a lonely ex-coal miner with a chronic chest condition and a middle-aged man who ... Read more

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  • Nursing Stories: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journey

    by Pedus C. Eweama ...
    Each of us has at least once in our lifetime come into contact with nurses of all backgrounds, whether in the course of being cared for or while they care for our family and friends. More often than not, we have seen nurses as what they truly are: compassionate professionals who often go above and beyond the call of duty in an unequivocally selfless manner. But not many of us have taken time to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Under the Microscope

    by Professor Earl Owen ...
    Under the Microscope is the story of an extraordinary man, his many life-changing inventions, and his exceptional life and special friendships.Born into a family of doctors – on the paternal and maternal sides - with a birth defect that no one knew how to treat, Earl Owen was given a dose of radiation before anyone knew what radiation treatment could do to a human body, let alone a newborn baby ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Mama, I'm Not Gone

    Losing a Child to Cancer – A Mother’s Compelling Journey through Grief, Spiritual Enlightenment and Healing Messages from the Other Side

    by Dana L. Wood ...
    “We went about our daily lives as normally as possible but when it came down to the fighting, we maintained our quiet yet tenacious determination.” And so begins the tragic but inspiring saga of 12-year-old Darah Joseph, a top-flight competitive athlete who developed Ewing Sarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer that afflicts children and young adults. Her brave and positive outlook carried her ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Haldol and Hyacinths

    A Bipolar Life

    by Melody Moezzi ...
    With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences with both clinical and cultural bipolarity.Born to Persian parents at the height of the Islamic Revolution and raised amid a vibrant, loving, and gossipy Iranian diaspora in the American heartland, Melody Moezzi was bound for a bipolar life. At 18, she began battling a severe physical illness, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up

    A True Story

    by Rich Blake ...
    The remarkable story of a fireman who miraculously came out of a coma for one full dayOn a brutally cold December day, Donny Herbert, a hardworking firefighter from Buffalo, New York, was searching the attic of a burning house. The roof, heavy with snow, suddenly collapsed, and for six minutes he was without oxygen. Donny—a beloved husband, a father of four boys, and a neighborhood fixture who was ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Autobiography of a Baby Boomer

    One man's detour from Cornell Medical School across Europe, Afghanistan, Iran, and India (with a few potholes along the way)

    by Robert Schultz ...
    In Autobiography of a Baby Boomer you'll follow the journey of a post-modernist baby-boomer from Father Knows Best middle class Fair Lawn, New Jersey to the hippy trail through Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The overland journey in search of something more than he could find at Cornell University Medical College covers four years during a time when "dropping out," "turning on," ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Norman Bethune

    The Incredible Life and Tragic Death of a Revered Canadian Doctor

    by Frances Hern ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    "Within hours of his arrival, Norman was taken to meet Chairman Mao Zedong. The smiling man grabbed Norman's hands in welcome....The two men talked for hours." This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: history or biography. One of the world's top surgeons, an advocate of democratic medical services, and an international humanitarian, Norman Bethune risked his life to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of The Gene: An Intimate History

    Based on the Book by Siddhartha Mukherjee

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Gene tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Siddhartha Mukherjee's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Second Sight

    by Judith Orloff, MD ...
    In this compelling self-portrait, psychic and psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff, "one of the frontier people in health, who was not satisfied with the existing order, the Establishment, and began to push for the expansion of knowledge which the establishment, of course, often rejected and for which it sough to punish them," (The Nation Magazine) draws on her own experience and that of her patients to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Diabesity

    The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America--And What We Must Do to Stop It

    by Francine R. Kaufman M.D. ...
    Experts now predict that more than one-third of American children born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the link between obesity and diabetes, this passionate, frightening–but ultimately hopeful–book points the way to a solution.To enter Dr. Francine Kaufman’s clinic is to see the future of America: a 220-pound twelve-year-old ... Read more

    $6.99 USD