In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surpr...

Freud for Beginners explains everything you need to know about psychoanalysis--super-egos, egos, ids, neurosis, psychosis, hysteria, dreams, the unconscious, sexuality--and about the man who (with some help from The Rat Man, Anna O., ...

A Nurses World, Volume III: Things I Didn't Learn In Nursing School gives you the unique perspective of Rachel Andersen's experiences, how and why she got started in her nursing career. A nurse doesn't stop giving when she's off the c...

Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington PostWhat is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feelin...

By the time most of us meet our doctors, they’ve been in practice for a number of years. Often they seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. Of course, they’re not all like that, and most didn’t start out that way. Here a...

“Wise and witty.”―Publishers Weekly“A charming story well told.”―Kirkus Reviews“Smart, funny, charming . . . full of astute insights into the way Italy works.”―Alexander Stille“A wonderfully fun read.”―Dr. Robe...

Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young children in the late sixties, and they found the island of Papavray in the Scottish Hebrides. There they bought a croft house on a "small a...

"A testament to the power of creativity in language, life—and love." —Heller McAlpin, Washington PostNo other writer can blend the science of the brain with the love of language like Diane Ackerman. In this extraordina...

Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander's life is a saga that started in 1946 and has been prof...

How Does That Make You Feel? obliterates the boundaries between the shrink and the one being shrunk with unabashedly candid writers breaking confidentiality and telling all about their experiences in therapy.This revelatory, no-punche...

"Amazing….Explores human courage under the most trying circumstances." —New York Post "An inspirational story about business, medical science, and one father's refusal to give up hope." —Boston Globe The bo...

From personal or family history of illness to a love of science or health policy, Why Medicine? reveals aspiring physicians are fundamentally driven by a compassionate desire to affect positive change. The essays in this volume have...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award The New York Timesbestseller from physician and award-winning wri...

Imagine all of your muscles going into spasm, and being unable to move a single part of your body. Imagine being in excruciating pain. Then imagine how it feels when the doctors tell you they don't know what's wrong. And they don't ev...

Now a Los Angeles Times BestsellerThe New York Times Book Review: "Awdish's book is the one I wished we were given as assigned reading our first year of medical school, alongside our white coats and stethoscopes...dramatic, engag...

A rare bone cancer robbed Jarrett Mynear of a normal childhood when he was two years old, but it didn't steal his spirit. This extraordinary boy captivated crowds with his courage, faith, and humor in the face of adversity. Instead of...

"Tears of Salt… reveals the human side of suffering through the life of one man." ―Adele Annesi, Washington Independent Review of BooksSituated more than one hundred miles off Italy's southern coast, the rocky island o...

The book is about what it is really like to be a flight nurse. Kurtis Bell brings over twenty years of flight nursing to bare in this no holes barred account of life working on a medical helicopter. With the most common question asked...

Curious about the world of obstetrics and gynecology? Want to know why a future doctor would want to specialize in gynecology? Or perhaps you’d just like a peek behind the curtain, so to speak -- and to hear some OBGYN secrets. If y...

With a Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the bestseller In the Heart of the SeaIf you need an appendectomy, he can do it with a stone scalpel he carved himself. If you have a condition nobody can diagnose—"creeping eru...

It is a situation we all fear and none of us can imagine: a life-threatening diagnosis. But what if the person receiving the diagnosis--young, physically fit, poised for a bright future--is himself a doctor?At thirty-one David biro...

Sixteen years ago, Juli Boit, a 25-year-old nurse practitioner, moved from Los Angeles to a small village in Kenya to be a part of an HIV program. In 2009, she founded a hospice called Kimbilio where men, women, and children come eith...

This sequel to Hurry up Nurse: memoirs of nurse training in the 1970s, follows the author to London in 1980. Here she takes up further nurse training at a hospital in the heart of the capital’s East End. The author moves into a nurs...

Reaching for Heaven chronicles Rebecca Browder's struggle with the Proteus syndrome, a condition that involves atypical growth of the bones, skin, head, and a variety of other symptoms. Rebecca is dedicated to learning as much as she ...

A real-life neurological mystery―and a captivating story of personal reinvention―by the New York Times bestselling author of The Daring Book for Girls.Nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingAndrea Buch...

For the Butters family, the punch that knocked the wind out of their lungs was a diagnosis of severe idiopathic scoliosis for their twelve-year-old daughter, Avery. The only viable treatment option was spinal fusion surgery. It was a...

On October 13, 1972, an Uruguayan air force plane carrying members of the Old Christians rugby team—and many of their friends and family members—crashed in the Andes mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending r...

Michael Cline had forty years of experience as a respiratory therapist. The stories which he has to tell about this life's work range from the comical and chaotic to the moving and inspiring. Cline had his eyes open for the sheer huma...

In this pulse-pounding medical memoir, trauma surgeon James Cole takes readers straight into the ER, where anything can and does happenTRAUMA is Dr. Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighti...

It looked for a while as if Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers m...