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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...
by J.D.M. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Canadians have never been more interested in their prime ministers’ personal lives, or their sometimes secretive true selves
Presents surprising inside stories about the lives of past prime ministers, like the time Brian Mulroney shot a boar with Boris Yeltsin and found himself in hot water, or how...
How Not to Die
Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
WHEN THIS DOCTOR TALKS, YOU SHOULD LISTEN.
Thousands of people make an early exit each year and arrive on medical examiner Jan Garavaglia’s table. What is particularly sad about this is that many of these deaths could easily have been prevented. Although Dr. Garavaglia, or Dr. G, as she’s...
Heart Matters
A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeon
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those...
Black Man in a White Coat
A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SELECTION • A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE BOOK SELECTION
One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems...
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,...
Gifted Hands 20th Anniversary Edition
The Ben Carson Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
In 1987, Dr. Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head. Carson pioneered again in a rare procedure known as a hemispherectomy, giving children without hope a second chance at life through a daring operation...
Waking the Spirit
A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
An Oliver Sacks Foundation Best Book of the Year Selection, Finalist for the Books for a Better Life "Best First Book” Award, and a People Magazine Pick in nonfiction.
The astounding story of a critically ill musician who is saved by music and returns to the same hospital to help heal...
Bedside Manners
One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and He aler
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In beautifully crafted vignettes, physician and NPR commentator David Watts explores the world of modern-day medicine and reveals the emotional truths and practical realities at the heart of the doctor-patient relationship. Bedside Manners is an engaging, often surprising investigation into what happens...
by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
"Riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own...
One Doctor
Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Told by a unique voice in American medicine, this epic story recounts life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician, and is described by The New York Times as “a true service [to history]. Dr. Reilly deserves a resounding bravo for telling it like it is.” Malcolm Gladwell...
Diabesity
The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America--And What We Must Do to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
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...
by Mark Vonnegut, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
“One of the best books about going crazy . . . required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside.”—The New York Times Book Review
Mark Vonnegut set out in search of Eden with his VW bug, his girlfriend, his dog, and his ideals. But genetic predisposition and “a...
Attending
Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
With his “deeply informed and compassionate book…Dr. Epstein tells us that it is a ‘moral imperative’ [for doctors] to do right by their patients” (New York Journal of Books).
The first book for the general public about the importance of mindfulness in medical practice, Attending...