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  • Bed No. 1

    From Coma to Cycling

    by Laurence Penn ...
    Much more than one man's battle with COVID-19. This story shines a light on the lives of the people who saved Laurence Penn, a fifty-four-year-old man who is placed into a coma in bed number one on ICU to help him fight the deadly virus sweeping the globe from 2020.We get a front-line view of the challenges of working in healthcare during a pandemic and meet the research nurses and healthcare team ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • In Stitches

    by Nick Edwards ...
    The true story of an A&E doctor that became a huge word-of-mouth hit.Forget what you have seen on Casualty or Holby City, this is what it is really like to be working in A&E.Dr Nick Edwards writes with shocking honesty about life as an A&E doctor. He lifts the lid on government targets that led to poor patient care. He reveals the level of alcohol-related injuries that often bring the service to a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Emotional Female

    by Yumiko Kadota ...
    Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workaholic, she regularly put ‘knife before life’, knowing it was all going to be worth it because it would lead to her longed-for career.But if the punishing hours in surgery weren’t hard enough, she also faced challenges as a young female surgeon ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Catch Your Breath

    The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

    by Ed Patrick ...
    'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford'It's funny, touching and gobsmacking in equal measure. At its heart is a breathtaking account of life on the COVID frontline.' - Jay Rayner'Ed's journey is funny, sad, harrowing, hilarious... I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO READ THIS.' - Colin Mochrie'Very Funny.' - Fern Brady'I love your boo... ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Vital Signs

    Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories of a junior doctor's first year

    An insight into what it's like to be a first-year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama, and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.Diagnosis and death; uncertainty and urgent laxatives; sleep deprivation and synthetic drawstring trousers: this debut work by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers chronicles her first year as a tired junior doctor at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital.How can Izzy be a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Paramedic's Diary

    Life & Death on the Streets

    by Stuart Gray ...
    Stuart Gray is a paramedic dealing with the worst life can throw at him.A Paramedic's Diary is his gripping, blow-by-blow account of a year on the streets - 12 roller-coaster months of enormous highs and tragic lows. One day he'll save a young mother's life as she gives birth, the next he might watch a young girl die on the tarmac in front of him after a hit-and-run. His is a world of hoax calls, ... Read more

    $3.29 CAD

  • The Language of Kindness

    A Nurse's Stories of Life, Death and Hope

    **#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Could not be more compelling or more welcome. It's about how we survive, and about the people who help us do so.” —The New York Times“I challenge anyone to get through all 336 pages without weeping.” —The Sunday Times**Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Stitched Up

    Stories of life and death from a prison doctor

    'Stories that will curl your toes, make you laugh out loud and break your heart all at the same time.'PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACK, author of All That RemainsTold from the inside out, this is a harrowing, humorous and hard-hitting tale of life behind bars by a prison doctor who has seen it all. Literally.Dr Shahed Yousaf spends his time running between emergencies - from overdoses to assaults, from ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Fifty Shades of Grey’s Anatomy: The Unfeeling Doctor’s fresh confessions from the emergency room

    Series Book 8 - Unfeeling Doctor Series
    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. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life, Death and Biscuits

    by Anthea Allen ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses have had to fight. Anthea Allen’s writing is raw, honest and full of love for those she cares for.’ Susanna ReidAn extraordinarily powerful memoir based on the diaries of intensive care nurse Anthea Allen, who worked on the front line of one of the largest hospitals in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Leopard in my House

    One man’s adventures in cancerland

    by Mark Steel ...
    ‘I feel like there’s a leopard in my house, locked in a room. I’ve contacted the leopard authorities and they assure me they are used to dealing with leopards like this, and they have a plan for removing the leopard. It will take a while, though, and once in a while I can hear it growl.And that’s all very reassuring. Even so, several times a day I think to myself: “Hang on, there’s a leopard in my ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • Blood, Sweat, & Tea

    Real-Life Adventures in an Inner-City Ambulance

    by Tom Reynolds ...
    A collection of true life stories from "one of the most gripping blogs around" recounting life as a paramedic for a British ambulance service. ( The Guardian)Have you ever wondered what's going on inside the ambulance screaming past you during your rush-hour commute? Since 2003, Tom Reynolds (writing under an alias so as not to get sacked from his job), has kept a blog where he chronicles the day ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus