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Broken Bones
New True Noir Essays From the Emergency Room by the Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
New, blistering, darkly funny essays breaking bones. And fixing them. And the seamy underside of life in the emergency room, with its cornucopia of crazy cases, not just bone-centred ones. For example, the man who tried to eat his own thumb and the case of bleeding brains. The most unfeeling doctor...
Dying to Wake Up
A Doctor's Voyage into the Afterlife and the Wisdom He Brought Back
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A rare glimpse into heaven, hell, and previous lives—Dr. Rajiv Parti’s near-death experience brought him on a journey through the afterworld, leading to a spiritual awakening that transformed his career, his lifestyle, and his most fundamental beliefs.
Before his near-death experience,...
Anatomy of a Miracle
Drew's Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Without any warning, your world can turn in an unexpected and unwanted direction. Drew was a normal ten-year-old, a smiling fourth grader and youngest of three sons. On a sunny day in June 2009, he was given a death sentence he didnt deserve, an illness no child should face, with treatment options...
Smart Medicine
How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
We're a nation in love with the drama of the medical world—from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true world of doctors and nurses and reveals the revolutionary changes that will soon be sweeping...
Confessions of a Surgeon
The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the...
And a Time to Die
How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Most Americans, when pressed, have a vague sense of how they would like to die. They may imagine a quick and painless end or a gentle passing away during sleep. Some may wish for time to prepare and make peace with themselves, their friends, and their families. Others would prefer not to know what's...
The RealAge (R) Makeover
Take Years Off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why not live at 60 feeling like you did at 35?
Thousands of Americans are younger today than they were five years ago. How is that possible? By following the specific recommendations that reverse aging in Dr. Michael Roizen's bestselling book RealAge®: Are You As Young As You Can Be?, people...
The Better Brain Solution
How to Start Now--at Any Age--to Reverse and Prevent Insulin Resistance of the Brain, Sharpen Cognitive Function, and Avoid Memory Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
In this step-by-step guide to enhancing cognitive function and fighting—and even reversing—memory loss, Dr. Steven Masley (bestselling author of The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up) lays out a four-pillar diet-and-lifestyle approach to improving brain health, focusing on food, nutrients, exercise, and stress...
by D. M. Kalten
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Prior to Abraham Lincoln becoming an American president there are some surprising situations in his life and this book is about one of them. Honest Abe found himself in a very dark, disturbing, scary situation that was vengeful, had conspiracy mixed in and shows comedy while the entire situation almost...
Abortion
Yes or No?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1993
Possibly the most widely read treatise on abortion in the world. Brief, clear, and thorough. Refutes all arguments for abortion. 550,000 sold.
From Harvard to Hell...and Back
A Doctors Journey through Addiction to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Dr. Sylvester "Skip" Sviokla lived life as a successful, driven, athletic, and brilliant graduate of Harvard Medical School, reveling in wealth and glamour as a "celebrity doctor" until addiction brought his life crashing down. This real-life "Dr. House" had it all (he...
Birth Day
A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
"I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school." So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author...
Mirror Touch
Notes from a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Challenging our understanding of what it means to be human, Joel Salinas, a Harvard-trained researcher and neurologist at Massachusetts General, shares his experiences with mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare and only recently identified neurological trait that causes him to feel the emotional and physical...
Coping with Lyme Disease, Third Edition
A Practical Guide to Dealing with Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Now completely revised and updated-the bible for the thousands who contract Lyme disease each year
Lyme disease, transmitted through the bite of a tick, is one of our nation's fastest-growing epidemics. Since Coping with Lyme Disease was first published in 1993, the number of sufferers afflicted...