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by Pat Ivey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
These are the trying, true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians who often are the only thing standing between any one of us and death. Author Pat Ivey uses her extensive firsthand experiences, as well as an unflinching eye for drama and detail, to bring us the unheard tales of heroism...
Manhattan Medics
The Gripping Story of the Men and Women of Emergency Medical Services Who Make the Streets of the City Their Career
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
This firsthand account of September 11, written by a paramedic on the scene, chronicles the days before and after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Frank Rella describes the paramedic crew stationed at St. Vincent's Hospital in lower Manhattan, the eerie foreshadowing of the coming disaster,...
A Stitch of Time
The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
“Readers will be compelled by this illuminating debut memoir…a captivating” (Kirkus Reviews) account of one woman’s journey to regain her language and identity after a brain aneurysm steals her ability to communicate.
Lauren Marks was twenty-seven, touring a show in Scotland with her...
Trauma
My Life as an Emergency Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
In this pulse-pounding medical memoir, trauma surgeon James Cole takes readers straight into the ER, where anything can and does happen.
TRAUMA is Dr. Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighting to save lives. In addition to his gripping stories of...
by Sandeep Jauhar
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick
For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author...
Heart and Vision
The Inspiring Life Story of Dr. Jorge Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Heart and Vision tells the life story of Dr. Jorge Garcia, renowned as one of the finest heart surgeons in the world. Having achieved outstanding feats and realized his strong vision, the doctor now turns his experiences and expertise into inspirational literature to encourage us to forge our own paths. All we need is heart, and the vision to get us there.
EMT
Beyond the Lights and Sirens
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A cardiac technician takes you to the front lines of emergency medicine—from tragic car accidents to gunshot wounds—in this “fast-moving” memoir (Booklist).
This book takes the reader to the front lines of medicine, from a serious automobile accident on a dark country road to a woman...
Cancerland
A Medical Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
An Amazon Best of the Month Book
"For all the insight he offers into the hard science and thorny logistics of studying cancer, Dr. Scadden’s most moving passages consider the effect of the disease on the people who suffer from it and those who care for them." —The Wall Street...
The Coroner Series
America's Most Controversial Medical Examiner Tells All
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
A New York Times–bestselling author and renowned Los Angeles medical examiner challenges the verdicts in America’s most controversial celebrity deaths.
“Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi encountered the best and the worst of Los Angeles—movie stars and gangsters, politicians and millionaires. . . ....
Outside the Asylum
A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
'A profound memoir' Daily Telegraph
'As revealing as the writing of Oliver Sacks' Mark Cousins
Outside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal and highly acclaimed exploration of humanitarian psychiatry and the changing world of international relief. Her memoir graphically describes her experiences...
Slow Medicine
The Way to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." —The New York Times Book Review
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Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than...
The Inheritance
A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This gripping story of the doctors at the forefront of Alzheimer’s research and the courageous North Dakota family whose rare genetic code is helping to understand our most feared diseases is “excellent, accessible...A science text that reads like a mystery and treats its subjects with humanity...
The Uncertain Art
Thoughts on a Life in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
“Life is short, and the Art so long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious; and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and the externals, cooperate.”
–attributed to Hippocrates, c. 400 B.C.E.
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by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Heirs of General Practice is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age—about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new medical specialty called family practice. They are people who have addressed themselves to a need for a unifying generalism in a world that has become...