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  • When All Becomes New

    A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Love, and Loss

    by Benjamin Rattray ...
    What is it like to resuscitate a baby on the cusp of viability, to purposely induce hypothermia, to remove and replace twice a baby's blood volume within a few hours? How do you confront the turmoil of emotions when everything goes wrong? Every year half a million babies are admitted to neonatal intensive care units across the country, their stories and experiences largely hidden from view. With ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • So There I Was...

    My Hospital Adventures

    by Rob Gordon ...
    This book is a collection of my all-time favorite stories from working with patients as a medical professional over the past seventeen years. I have witnessed and been a part of some amazing experiences ranging from hilarious to shocking to just plain disgusting. I've told these stories many times at family gatherings, parties, and in conversations with friends. After much encouragement, I took ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Tending Lives

    Nurses on the Medical Front

    by Echo Heron ...
    As the healthcare debate rages on with the growth of the HMO industry, nurses quietly continue to provide the day-to-day grit and deeply-felt passion that hold the healing profession together. Within these remarkable women and men are poignant, outrageous stories drawn from the edge of life. But fear of career backlash and reprisals have made them reluctant to talk to outsiders about their ... Read more

    Was $8.99 CAD Now $4.99 CAD

  • Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives

    Tales of Life and Death from the ER

    by Pamela Grim, MD ...
    With unflinching honesty, an ER doctor tells readers what it's really like to be a caring physician with one of the most demanding, exhilarating, frustrating, and rewarding jobs in the world.An emergency medicine physician for nearly a decade, Dr. Pamela Grim has delivered babies, treated heart attacks, saved car accident victims, comforted the dying, and consoled the living who were left behind. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Heart Matters

    A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon

    by Kathy Magliato M.D. ...
    An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeonDr. 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 surgeons specially trained to perform heart transplants. Heart Matters is the story of the making ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

    Tales from Neurosurgery

    by Frank Vertosick Jr. ...
    "Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating." —New York Times Book ReviewWith poignant insight and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man’s evolution from naïve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr. describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

  • The Woman Who Swallowed a Toothbrush

    And Other Bizarre Medical Cases

    by Rob Myers ...
    Drawing from real medical journal cases, a doctor shares true stories about strange symptoms and perplexing patients.Those in the medical profession know that sometimes the cases that come into emergency rooms or doctor's offices can be highly unusual—and depending on how things go, the results can be either tragic or comic. This collection of stories reveals some of the oddest and most memorable ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Patients Taught Me

    A Medical Student's Journey

    by Audrey Young ...
    Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this book explores some of the difficult and deeply personal questions a 23-year-old doctor confronts with her very first dying patient, and continues to struggle with as she strives to become a good doctor. In her ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Singular Intimacies

    Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue

    by Danielle Ofri MD ...
    A “finely gifted writer” shares 15 “brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency” at Bellevue Hospital (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat).Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country—and perhaps the most legendary. It is both ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • This Won't Hurt a Bit

    (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood

    by Michelle Au, MD ...
    If Atul Gawande were funny--or Jerome Groopman were a working mother--they might sound something like Michelle Au, M.D., author of this hilarious and poignant memoir of a medical residency.Michelle Au started medical school armed only with a surfeit of idealism, a handful of old ER episodes for reference, and some vague notion about "helping people."This Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of how she ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Intern

    A Doctor's Initiation

    by Sandeep Jauhar ...
    Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency—and especially the first year, called internship—is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their first year asking themselves why they wanted to be ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Intern Blues

    The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor

    by Robert Marion ...
    The classic "gripping account" of three young doctors in training at a New York City hospital, updated with a new preface and afterword ( The New York Times Book Review).While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus