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  • And Then There Was Swine Flu

    The Diary of an Nhs Manager

    by Acklima Akbar ...
    Acklima Akbar draws on her past experience as a manager in the NHS (National Health Service) to lead us into the fascinating world of decision-making right at the heart of this closed world. Her book is a satirical expose on crisis management in hospitals that is both shocking and funny. She takes us down the long corridors of routine medical conditions and incredibly mundane meetings to critical ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Prodigy

    by Amy Wallace ...
    William James Sidis (1898-1944) was born to a psychologist with some unorthodox ideas about child rearing, attended Harvard at an absurdly young age, burned out at 14, and spent most of the rest of his life working menial jobs and living in poverty. Dubbed a ``failed prodigy'' by the popular press, he lived out his years as an eccentric and a recluse. The truth is a lot more complex than this, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Confessions of a Trauma Junkie

    My Life as a Nurse Paramedic

    by Sherry Jones Mayo ...
    Series series Reflections of America
    Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Jones MayoShare the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Jones Mayo has been an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergerncy Room Nurse, and an on-scene critical incident debriefer for Hurricane Katrina. Most people who have observed or experienced physical, mental ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Theft of Memory

    Losing My Father, One Day at a Time

    by Jonathan Kozol ...
    A Library Journal Best Book of 2015National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father’s life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Doctor Will See You Now

    by Max Pemberton ...
    The doctor is back again and on the wards! Now in his third year as junior doctor, Max looks and sounds the part. But this time around, things are not at all as he expected ...The junior doctor ... back on the wards. After a year on the streets treating outreach patients, Max Pemberton is back in the relative comfort of hospital. This time running between elderly care and the dementia clinic to A ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Call

    A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency

    by Emily R. Transue ...
    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 just after graduating from medical school. This series of loosely interconnected scenes from the author's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Woman Who Lost Her Face: How Charla Nash Survived the World's Most Infamous Chimpanzee Attack

    by NBC News, Meredith Vieira ...
    “Through Charla I have learned that the will to survive is a powerful force and that human courage knows no bounds.” —NBC’s Meredith VieiraViciously attacked by a chimpanzee in 2009, Charla Nash was left so severely disfigured that she no longer had eyes to see the world, hands to feel it or even a face to show it. By her own doctors’ accounts, she never should have survived her injuries. Charla’s ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • But Hope is Longer: Navigating the Country of Breast Cancer

    Navigating the Country of Breast Cancer

    by Tamara Levine ...
    When Tamara Levine received her breast cancer diagnosis, in a state of shock, she decided to inform her friends and colleagues by writing to them. That letter was the first of thirteen communications she calls her healing journey. As well as sharing the letters, Tamara tells us what she learned maneuvering through the black hole of cancer treatment. Tamara discusses vulnerabilities and fears, the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Ooh Matron!

    The Nomadic Nurse Series, #1

    by Sarah Jane Butfield ...
    Series Book 1 - The Nomadic Nurse Series
    *****Award Winning Nurse Memoir*****I am not sure what Florence Nightingale would have made of Sarah Jane! The story starts with a sixteen-year-old country girl who, for no apparent reason at the time, suddenly decided that she wanted to be a nurse.Sarah Jane was entering adulthood with no obvious career path in sight. She had planned a traditional, some would say old fashioned, future. Her vision ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Children's Place

    Inside a Children's Hospital

    by Lee Gutkind ...
    "A welcome and poignant account of the intense human and political dynamics of a major children's hospital that will have a substantial impact on the way you view children and their care." — The New England Journal of MedicineLee Gutkind is a master at stepping into the worlds of medicine and revealing the unique desires, characteristics, and stories of the people therein. For One Children's Place ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Pilgrimage

    My Mother's Life and Our Journey to Saying Goodbye

    by Linda Daly ...
    Linda Daly had a seemingly charmed life: her mother Nancy was married to the head of Warner Bros, and her parents were one of the most influential and prominent couples in Los Angeles. Even their divorce couldn't test the bond between mother and daughter, and their family grew: her mother married Dick Riordan, mayor of L.A.; her father married songwriter Carole Bayer Sager. The extended family ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sixty-One Questions and Answers for New Knowledge and New Thinking in the Twenty-First Century

    The Past, Present, and Future of Humankind; the Challenge Issues of Medicine, Science, Religion, and Politics for the Global Mind

    by Charles H. Chen MD ...
    New knowledge and new thinking in human health, science, religion, and current affairs use questions and answers to many complex issues that are affecting peoples lives all over the world. The new theory will unravel the old myths and inherited old wrong knowledge since ancient time. The topics such as: The origin of living things (plants and animals), Intelligent design/God theory vs. Charles ... Read more

    $3.99 USD