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by Mark Vonnegut, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
“One of the best books about going crazy . . . required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside.”—The New York Times Book Review
Mark Vonnegut set out in search of Eden with his VW bug, his girlfriend, his dog, and his ideals. But genetic predisposition and “a...
Attending
Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
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...
MASH
An Army Surgeon in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon...
On Call
A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine...
by Dino Panvini M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
You will read about the bizarre conspiracy actions that were taken against Dr. Panini's professional career, personal life and safety, with multiple murder attempts and fraudulent allegations by the legal, medical system ,all because he did the right thing. These mind boggling actions will amaze and...
by Marianne Bette, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Sitting in an oncologist’s waiting room is one of life’s more sobering experiences. The first thing that hit her was that she was there, not as a doctor, but as a cancer patient’s wife.
It didn’t matter that Marianne was a family practitioner, or that her husband, Thom, was a death...
The Golden Years
Living in a Retirement Center
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The book is vivid description of life in an outstanding Retirement Center. This tale details the various activities offered and the lovely ambalance of this facility. This story contains vignettes of some of the inhabitants of the first class Center, and why it has been voted the Number 1 Retirement...
Inferno
A Doctor's Ebola Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
"Hatch packs a wealth of knowledge into the book...poignant." -Associated Press
Dr. Steven Hatch, an infectious disease specialist, first came to Liberia in November 2013 to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians he had served with were dead or...
Not All of Us Are Saints
A Doctor's Journey With the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
"A powerful report of the experiences of a physician living and practicing medicine in the inner city ... A deeply disturbing picture of the degradation of ghetto life and a painfully honest account of one man's attempt to do something about it." - Kirkus Reviews
To Heaven and Back
A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
**New York Times bestseller
A kayak accident during a South American adventure takes one woman to heaven—where she experienced God’s peace, joy, and angels—and back to life again.**
In 1999 in the Los Rios region of southern Chile, orthopedic surgeon, devoted wife, and loving mother...
Think Big
Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
In Think Big, which emanates from the last chapter of his best-selling Gifted Hands, Dr. Ben Carson prescribes his personal formula for success. And who could better advise than one who transformed his own life from that of being a ghetto kid with problems in school to becoming the most celebrated...
Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers
A Kidney Doctor's Search for the Perfect Match
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A young, hopeful doctor’s memoir—an unforgettable love story and an informative journey into the world of medicine and kidney transplantation that ultimately asks: What does it mean to let go of something that you love, even if it is life itself?
When Vanessa fell in love with Robert, she...
My Life
Based on the Book Gifted Hands
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Ben Carson grew up in the inner cities of Boston and Detroit with his mother and brother. When his father deserted the family, Ben’s mother worked several jobs to support her boys yet worked even harder to encourage them to get an education and follow their dreams. Ben’s dreams nearly ended...
The Big Picture
Getting Perspective on What's Really Important in Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his grade school days, Ben Carson would hardly have been voted “most likely to become a famous surgeon.” His classmates had already given him another label: class dummy. Then a light clicked on for Ben—and a consuming passion for learning that catapulted him from “zero” test grades to...