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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get T...

Atul Gawande

The ordinary checklist is shown as anything but in this riveting account. Documenting lives saved and crisie averted, this text honors a simple, effective tool. Gawande is a writer with a scalpel pen and an X-ray eye.

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2009

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Nea...

M. D. Eben Alexander III

A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander kn...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2012

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performa...

Atul Gawande

The New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal: each o...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2008

Anticancer, A New Way of Life

David Servan-Schreiber

At age thirty-one David Servan-Schreiber was a rising neuroscientist with his own laboratory for brain imaging funded by the National Institutes of Health. While testing brain-scanning equipment, he discovered a tumor the size of a wa...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2008

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and t...

Deborah Blum

Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City's first forensic scientists to discover a fascinating Jazz Age story of chemistry and detection, poison and murder.

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2010

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performa...

Atul Gawande

The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2007

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and t...

Deborah Blum

A beguiling concoction-equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller. A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgott...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2011

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Ma...

Sharon Moalem

Invites readers to change their perceptions about illness in order to understand disease as an essential component of the evolutionary process, citing the role of such malaises as diabetes, STDs, and the Avian Bird Flu in protecting t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2007

Beating Back the Devil: On the Front ...

Maryn McKenna

IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES. They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than twenty-four hours' notice before they are dispatched. The phone calls that tell them to head to the airport, sometimes...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2004

On the Move: A Life

Oliver Sacks

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2015

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Jou...

M. D. Eben Alexander

A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFEThousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander kne...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2012

The End of Illness

David B. Agus

From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers, a monumental work that radically redefines our conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for living a long, healthy life. Can we live robustly unti...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2012

Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David M...

Anonymous

The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing story of David Miscavige's childhood and his path to the head seat of the Church of Scientology told through the eyes of his father. R...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2016

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall D...

Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doc...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2012

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of ...

Matthew Walker

A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this “stimulating and important book” (Financial Times) from the director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Human Sleep Science is a fascinating dive into the purpose and power ...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2018

The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkabl...

Norman Doidge

The New York Times bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in neuroplasticityIn The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding of th...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2015

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biogra...

Siddhartha Mukherjee

A magnificent, beautifully written epic "biography" of cancer---in the tradition of Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon, this is a brilliant exploration of the past, present, and future of a complex disease that defines us an...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Nov 2010

The Lord God Made Them All (All Creat...

James Herriot

The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories. In this newly repackaged volume, after serving in the RAF in World W...

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Published: May 2015

Spillover: Animal Infections and the ...

David Quammen

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in comm...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2013

An American Sickness: How Healthcare ...

Elisabeth Rosenthal

The New York Times bestseller.At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems."Patients...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2017

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vi...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2011

As Nature Made Him

John Colapinto

In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment. On the advice of a renowned expert in gender identity and sexual reassignment at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the boy was surgically alter...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2006

The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Med...

D. T. Max

For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist's ...

Terry McDermott

It's not fiction: Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist-malnourished, contentious, inspiring, explosive, remarkably ambitious, consistently brilliant. He is one of the foremost figures of contemporary neuros...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2010

Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medic...

Sanjay Gupta

SAVING LIVES AGAINST ALL ODDS A 12-week old unborn baby with a fatal heart defect...a skier drowned for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake...a comatose brain surgery patient...a teenager with four rapidly expanding tumors. Twenty y...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2009

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on a...

Atul Gawande

A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with ...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2003

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Br...

Katrina Firlik

Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply hum...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2007

The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life...

Sherwin B. Nuland

Long-time physician Sherwin B. Nuland presents a provocative and stimulating collection of stories illustrating the vagaries of medical practice over the years.

Abridged MP3-CD
Published: May 2008

Toby and Friends: Therapy Dogs

Jill McMullen

She is a Therapet and shares her story of moving from pound puppy to friend of all. Toby & Friends takes you inside an incredible journey of love, compassion, encouragement, and devotion as Toby tells of her adventures with special fr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2007

Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, I...

Julie Salamon

In 2005, Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, unveiled a new state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar cancer center. Determined to understand the whole spectrum of factors that determine what kind of medical care people receive in ...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: May 2008
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