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Healing Children
A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
**A National Bestseller
An “astounding and miraculous ” (Madeline Levine) medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons-- the visionary head of Children’s National **
Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made...
What's New, Doc?
A Collection of Funny, Poignant, and Even Scandalous Medical Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Medicine can be raunchy! is the comment a friend made when I shared some of my stories with her.
Another friend stated, These stories are outrageous! and his statement gave me an idea for the subtitle.
My reply to these friends is, But they are all true. In fact, you should have heard...
Prize Fight
The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be torn by jealousy, impelled by a need for recognition, and subject to human vulnerability and...
The Edge of Medicine
The Technology That Will Change Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Experts agree that we are entering the Golden Age of Medicine, when our everyday experience of being ill and getting better will be more like science fiction than today's routine trip to the doctor.
Bill Hanson, director of the surgical intensive care unit at the University of Pennsylvania...
by William B. MacCracken, M. D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Normal Sight Without Glasses was first published in 1945. The book was printed by Gazette Press (Berkeley, California).
The author is a physician with over forty years practice of general medicine. After having worn glasses constantly for thirty-seven years, he cures his own eyesight with...
How Your Surgeon Feels
Lifetime Essays in the Art and Science of Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
In the vast array and vitriol of our National Health debate , the doctors voice , especially that of the surgeon , is rarely solicited , and seldom heard . It is mostly the clamor of patients you hear or the rancor of politicians . This compendium of lifetime essays will restitute an imbalance that...
Life After Death
The Burden of Proof
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Deepak Chopra has touched millions of readers by demystifying our deepest spiritual concerns while retaining their poetry and wonder. Now he turns to the most profound mystery: What happens after we die? Is this one question we were not meant to answer, a riddle whose solution the universe keeps to...
Code Blue
A Katrina Physician's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
The book that finally gives a physicians inside story of the evacuation of Memorial Medical Center following Katrina a gripping tale of abandonment and survival.
A toxic stew of floodwaters surrounded Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Katrina when the levees broke. Over two thousand...
Take the Risk
Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
No risk, pay the cost. Know risk, reap the rewards. In our risk-avoidance culture, we place a high premium on safety. We insure our vacations. We check crash tests on cars. We extend the warranties on our appliances. But by insulating ourselves from the unknown—the risks of life—we miss the great...
Julia's Mother
Life Lessons in the Pediatric ER
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2000
A real-life pediatric emergency room doctor reveals the trials, heartbreaks, and triumphs of his work.
It's a place of intense human drama, life's highest hopes and deepest despairs. A place we rarely get to see through a doctor's eyes.
But now the emergency room at a children's hospita is...
The Death of Cancer
After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has...
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...