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Heart
An American Medical Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, share the story of Cheney’s thirty-five-year battle with heart disease—providing insight into the incredible medical breakthroughs that have changed cardiac care over the last four decades.
For as long...
In Shock
My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient, In Shock "searches for a glimmer of hope in life’s darkest moments, and finds it.” —The Washington Post
Dr. Rana Awdish never imagined that an emergency trip to the hospital would result in hemorrhaging...
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who first identified CTE in professional football players, a discovery that challenges the existence of America’s favorite sport and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football’s most powerful corporation:...
The Nocturnal Brain
Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
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 Secret World of Sleep, a fascinating exploration of the symptoms and syndromes behind sleep disorders.
For Dr. Guy Leschziner’s patients,...
How We Do Harm
A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical...
Emergency!:
True Stories from the Nation's ERs
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Long before the hit TV show E.R., emergency room doctor Mark Brown decided that the world just had to know about real life in a hospital's E.R.
The emergency room is a cauldron of human emotions. The anguish, fear, need, and gore is wearing. As the protective layer of the self is weakened,...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication,...
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr....
by Joseph DiMona, Thomas T. Noguchi, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
America’s most controversial medical examiner explores the unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Janis Joplin, William Holden, Natalie Wood, John Belushi, and many of his other important cases
Now, for the first time, Dr. Noguchi recounts...
One Children's Place
Inside a Children's Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
“A welcome and poignant account of the intense human and political dynamics of a major children’s hospital that will have a substantial impact on the way you view children and their care.” —The New England Journal of Medicine
Lee Gutkind is a master at stepping into the worlds of medicine...
Teasing Secrets from the Dead
My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history.
In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent teasing secrets from the dead.
Emily...
Rescue 471
A Paramedic's Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
TRUE LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMA
In taut, thrilling prose, Peter Canning has written a book that captures the rarely seen real world of emergency medicine. A seasoned paramedic who fights under enormous pressure to save lives, Canning trains new paramedics for the rigors of a nonstop, action-packed...
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr....
Five Quarts
A Personal and Natural History of Blood
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
“We’re born in blood. Our family histories are contained in it, our bodies nourished by it daily. Five quarts run through each of us, along some sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries.”
–fromFive Quarts
In the national bestseller Sleep Demons, Bill Hayes took us on...