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by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Are women ruining medicine? Nah.
Real life in the emergency lane, zeroing on body parts and chicks in scrubs.
Just like Grey’s Anatomy, medicine with a little bit of sex. And, like Fifty Shades of Grey, a tiny bit of torture.
The Heart Speaks
A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
WEAVING MEDICAL NARRATIVE AND CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE, DR. MIMI GUARNERI EXPLORES THE FRONTIERS BEYOND THE PHYSICAL HEART.
Every day, 2,600 Americans die of cardiovascular disease -- one person every thirty-three seconds. Ten times more women die of heart disease than breast cancer. Despite remarkable...
Extreme Measures
Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level
In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.
Jessica Zitter became a doctor...
After the Diagnosis
Transcending Chronic Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
After the Diagnosis is a heartfelt and moving lesson on the art of living well through serious illness.
Dr. Julian Seifter understands the difficulty of managing a chronic condition in our health-obsessed, take-life-by-the-horns, live-forever world. When he found out he was suffering from diabetes,...
HEALING THE WOUNDS
A Physician Looks at His Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of spiraling...
Healing Children
A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
**A National Bestseller
An “astounding and miraculous ” (Madeline Levine) medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons-- the visionary head of Children’s National **
Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made...
What's New, Doc?
A Collection of Funny, Poignant, and Even Scandalous Medical Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Medicine can be raunchy! is the comment a friend made when I shared some of my stories with her.
Another friend stated, These stories are outrageous! and his statement gave me an idea for the subtitle.
My reply to these friends is, But they are all true. In fact, you should have heard...
Prize Fight
The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be torn by jealousy, impelled by a need for recognition, and subject to human vulnerability and...
The Edge of Medicine
The Technology That Will Change Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Experts agree that we are entering the Golden Age of Medicine, when our everyday experience of being ill and getting better will be more like science fiction than today's routine trip to the doctor.
Bill Hanson, director of the surgical intensive care unit at the University of Pennsylvania...
by William B. MacCracken, M. D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Normal Sight Without Glasses was first published in 1945. The book was printed by Gazette Press (Berkeley, California).
The author is a physician with over forty years practice of general medicine. After having worn glasses constantly for thirty-seven years, he cures his own eyesight with...
How Your Surgeon Feels
Lifetime Essays in the Art and Science of Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
In the vast array and vitriol of our National Health debate , the doctors voice , especially that of the surgeon , is rarely solicited , and seldom heard . It is mostly the clamor of patients you hear or the rancor of politicians . This compendium of lifetime essays will restitute an imbalance that...
Life After Death
The Burden of Proof
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Deepak Chopra has touched millions of readers by demystifying our deepest spiritual concerns while retaining their poetry and wonder. Now he turns to the most profound mystery: What happens after we die? Is this one question we were not meant to answer, a riddle whose solution the universe keeps to...
Code Blue
A Katrina Physician's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
The book that finally gives a physicians inside story of the evacuation of Memorial Medical Center following Katrina a gripping tale of abandonment and survival.
A toxic stew of floodwaters surrounded Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Katrina when the levees broke. Over two thousand...
Take the Risk
Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
No risk, pay the cost. Know risk, reap the rewards. In our risk-avoidance culture, we place a high premium on safety. We insure our vacations. We check crash tests on cars. We extend the warranties on our appliances. But by insulating ourselves from the unknown—the risks of life—we miss the great...