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 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal JourneyBest Price: $14.19 My Stroke of Insight gives the reader an informative view of stroke victims. This should be... |  Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson StoryBest Price: $2.00 This is an excellent read for young adults onward. Interwoven in all of Dr. Carson's stories is... |  Autobiography of a FaceBest Price: $4.87 An amazing story of this girl's experiences growing up disfigured. I too was an "outcast on... |  The PactBest Price: $6.50 I picked up this book after my wife and I started a group reading with my son of the book;... |  Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical MysteryBest Price: $17.81 Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to... |
 Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)Best Price: $8.24 Before I delve into my textual diatribe on why this book fails on so many levels, let me go... |  The Two Kinds of Decay: A MemoirBest Price: $10.95 This is a short book about Sarah Manguso's experience with a strange autoimmune illness, which... |  ADHD & Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner TableBest Price: $8.84 I provide therapy to children with ADHD and their families. This book is extremely helpful in... |  Intern: A Doctor's InitiationBest Price: $12.72 XXXXX "This book is about my residency [apprenticeship in medicine] at a prominent... |  Sickened: The True Story of a Lost ChildhoodBest Price: $7.34 It amazes me that this was allowed to go on as long as it did. Doctors, Nurses etc.. Just sad,... |
 Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My LifeBest Price: $11.50 I started reading after lunch today, and couldn't put it down. The writing is compelling and... |  The Lord God Made Them All (All Creatures Great & Small)Best Price: $4.25 I think we've all heard of ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL. The book was brilliantly written in... |  Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Vintage)Best Price: $7.30 Autobiographical, well written and organized, sensitive and upbeat, Dr. Chen shares with us her... |  Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul FarmerBest Price: $11.99 One of the best works of nonfiction we have ever read and a truly inspiring story of what genius... |  It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being AliveBest Price: $10.48 I only knew Evan Handler from Sex and the City. I heard him interviewed and he was talking... |
 Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for ExcellenceBest Price: $4.69 Continuing his desire to share what he has learned in his journey to greatness, Dr. Carson lays... |  On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in ResidencyBest Price: $8.43 It's a honest encounter of residency years of a Internal Medicine Physician. It's mostly like a... |  Pretending to Be Normal: Living With Asperger's SyndromeBest Price: $14.46 I really enjoyed Liane's story - it gave me hope that my Aspie daughter (and son) will grow up... |  Death Be Not Proud (P.S.)Best Price: $7.85 I was in the Barnes and Noble on Broadway and couldn't find "Death Be Not Proud." I... |  Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy LabBest Price: $8.95 I was almost EMBARASSED to let people see me buying this book! I was somehow afraid people would... |
 Don't Bet against Me!: Beating the Odds Against Breast Cancer and in LifeBest Price: $8.90 Wonderful book with lots of information about breast cancer. Also a great story on Deanna's life... |  Paula: A Memoir (P.S.)Best Price: $8.44 In this book, Isabel Allende downplays her first two traumatic experiences. The central focus... |  Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the InsideBest Price: $4.54 In general, this is the type of book I love - a first-hand account of someone's life and... |  My LobotomyBest Price: $13.89 I loved this book! I just cannot fathom that a young boy went through all of this. I am so happy... |  The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and DeathBest Price: $6.99 This is a great book. It tells the story of Harvard medical school graduates and their... |
 Cracked: Life on the Edge in a Rehab ClinicBest Price: $5.62 This book speaks with the hard facts of an encylopedia but reads like a novel when talking about... |  Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well LivedBest Price: $1.99 I just finished reading "Not Fade Away" for the second time. The first time I read it... |  Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of HopeBest Price: $7.99 "Strong at the Broken Places" is an excellent resource for anyone with a chronic or... |  Population: 485 (P.S.)Best Price: $8.13 From the little I'd read about this book, I expected some warm, perhaps funny vignettes about... |  Gift of Pain, TheBest Price: $7.00 This book is a moving account, part biographical, part medical that gives incredible insight... |
 Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a MotherBest Price: $8.44 Peggy Orenstein's articulate prose is as "gorgeous" as her mucous:-). (She was... |  Where is the Mango Princess?Best Price: $7.89 Crimmon's book was heart-wrenching to read. The story of her husband's TBI (Traumatic Brain... |  Life After Gastric Bypass: 6 Steps to Ensure Your Weight Loss SuccessBest Price: $15.59 This is a great book. It has alot of needed information for pre-op bariatric patients and those... |  Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That HealBest Price: $4.19 There was a seeming dual purpose motivating the author to write this book. Remen is a medical... |  The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional HealingBest Price: $5.00 Lori Arviso Alvord walks in two worlds. Raised on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico --... |
 Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical ExaminerBest Price: $3.26 After you get past this author's overweening ego, he has a great story to tell. First, he... |  Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and RealizationsBest Price: $3.99 Robert Johnson has been a great teacher, mentor, and inspiration for many in the exploration of... |  Change in the Weather: Life After StrokeBest Price: $12.10 CHANGE IN THE WEATHER: LIFE AFTER STROKE tells of a news anchorman at the peak of his life - and... |  Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio HavenBest Price: $8.17 When I was a boy we had this lady come into my creative writing class at school, and she read to... |  Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 PersonalitiesBest Price: $14.88 I've always been interested in cases of multiple personality, and SWITCHING TIME is the mother... |
 Why I Wore Lipstick: To My MastectomyBest Price: $2.75 I loved this book. I am a breast cancer survivor, and I can relate to everything she is saying.... |  The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern SurgeryBest Price: $6.45 Funny how I'd always confused John Hunter with his brother William whose reputation as a prig... |  Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant MemoirBest Price: $2.97 Mr. Cohen is a huge black hole; I once did not feel his love for his children...my impression... |  My Own Country: A Doctor's StoryBest Price: $3.00 This book has excellent insite to the challenges of people with HIV. Great read! |  All Things Bright and BeautifulBest Price: $7.89 All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot is a true classic and I can see why it has been... |
 Cancer Vixen: A True StoryBest Price: $5.45 I loved this book! Have been waiting for M.A. book since read "Who the hellis SHE... |  This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion DoctorBest Price: $8.97 This is a wonderful, well written, book about a heroic figure who has endured much intimidation... |  All My Patients are Under the BedBest Price: $2.39 I love this book! It is a can't put down sort of book. I only wish I could have a vet like him.... |  Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First YearsBest Price: $7.45 The author describes in just the right amount of detail, what his residency in orthopedics was... |  What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young DoctorsBest Price: $7.90 There are many stories in here, but very few are about what anyone learned in medical school. In... |
 I'll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After Brain InjuryBest Price: $16.95 My son received a severe brain injury in a car accident almost two years ago. He has made a... |  Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect ScienceBest Price: $12.94 Atul Gawande gratefully takes the reader to the back of the OR, a place open for a few, yet... |  Hope's Wish: How One Girl's Dream Made Others Come TrueBest Price: $12.49 Sometimes it is so easy to get caught up in the "me, me" rat race of life that we... |  Sick GirlBest Price: $4.79 I found this a compelling and provocative story. Silverstein never flinches when telling of her... |  Borrowed Time: An AIDS MemoirBest Price: $3.95 Others have already described the book well. I just want to add my two cents. This account and... |
 Alex: The Life of a ChildBest Price: $3.01 I watched the excellent TV movie made of this book when I was around 8 and then read the book... | ||||
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