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  • You Don't Look Sick!, Second Edition

    Living Well With Chronic Invisible Illness

    by Steven S. Overman, MD, Joy H. Selak ...
    You Don't Look Sick chronicles one personís true-life story of illness and her physicians compassionate commentary as they journey through the four stages of chronic illness: Getting Sick, Being Sick, Grief and Acceptance and Living Well. The authors address such practical aspects as hiring a doctor, managing chronic pain, coping with grief and loss of function, winning battles with health and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Confessions of a GP

    by Benjamin Daniels ...
    Series series The Confessions Series
    Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How Not to Die

    Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner

    by Jan Garavaglia M.D. ...
    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 known to many, could not tell these individuals how to avoid their fates, we can benefit from her experience ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • God's Hotel

    A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

    by Victoria Sweet ...
    **Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now!For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle).**San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s hotel) that cared for the sick in the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney

    Tales from the Gurney

    by Julie Devaney ...
    Her weakest moment spawned a crusade for change. Julie Devaney takes us on a journey through the health care system as she is diagnosed and treated for ulcerative colitis. In and out of emergency rooms in Vancouver and Toronto, she’s poked, prodded, and abandoned to a closet at one point, bearing the helplessness and indignities of a system that seems hell-bent on victimizing the sick. Raw, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Adrenal Fatigue Cure Guide (Beat Chronic fatigue): Restoring your Hormones and Controling Thyroidism

    Restoring your Hormones and Controling Thyroidism

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    Adrenal Fatigue is a state of the body wherein the Adrenal Glands begin functioning at sub par levels resulting in excessive stress, mood swings, chronic infections, influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia. Here is a boxed set of three books tackling the subject to help you combat the problem. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Surprising Lives of Small-Town Doctors

    by Paul Dhillon, M.D. ...
    In The Surprising Lives of Small-Town Doctors, physicians put down their stethoscopes and pick up their pens to share some of the most frightening and pivotal moments of their careers. From making igloo house calls to bandaging animal bites to performing surgeries they may have only read about in textbooks, these young doctors speak of the many rewards of practising medicine in small communities. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Attending

    Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity

    by Dr. Ronald Epstein, M.D. ...
    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 is a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors approach their work with patients. From his early days as a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals

    How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out

    by Peter Pronovost, Eric Vohr ...
    The inspiring story of how a leading innovator in patient safety found a simple way to save countless lives.First, do no harm-doctors, nurses and clinicians swear by this code of conduct. Yet in hospitals and doctors' offices across the country, errors are made every single day - avoidable, simple mistakes that often cost lives. Inspired by two medical mistakes that not only ended in unnecessary ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Adrenal Fatigue: Take Control of Adrenal Burnout and Restore Your Health Naturally

    Natural Health & Natural Cures Series

    by Christine Weil ...
    Series series Natural Health & Natural Cures Series
    “Adrenal Fatigue: Take Control of Adrenal Burnout and Restore Your Health Naturally”.If you are looking at this book, then chances are either you or someone close to you is experiencing symptoms of adrenal fatigue.You may be tired all the time, regardless of how much sleep you get.You may not be able to get through the day without energy drinks, pots of coffee or tea, or the nicotine from ... Read more

    $3.94 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    by Charles R. Morris ...
    "Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying."—Wall Street JournalHailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a late-night against-the-clock "harvest run" to secure a precious transplantable organ, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Bipolar Doctor

    by R.T. Kumar ...
    Despite battling depression in his mid-teens, Rohit Kumar fulfilled his beloved parents’ dream of becoming a doctor in 1990. He was one of Canada’s first hospitalists before setting up a highly successful private practice, and acquired specialized expertise in treating patients with chronic pain and those needing palliative care. Dr. Kumar’s star began rising in both Canada and the United States. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD