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Medical History and Memoirs
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Personal reflections about the human side of medicine.
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Amatuzio, Janis Beyond Knowing A Minneapolis-based medical examiner recollects the intimate and sometimes mysterious connections between the dying and their loved ones as experienced during her medical education. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Amatuzio, Janis Forever Ours As an experienced forensic pathologist, Amatuzio has witnessed many situations that took her understanding of life and death beyond the scientific. With these heartfelt and compassionate stories, she shows how she came to believe that there is a place where departed loved ones persist. 2004 155.937 A | |
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Au, Michelle This Won't Hurt a Bit (and other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood The author describes her struggle to balance long days and nights after she became a new mother during her medical residency and her efforts to handle these two high-stress jobs without losing her sanity or sense of humor. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Belluck, Pam Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor An account of life on Nantucket as experienced by the island's eccentric doctor who is the glue that holds health care together in a place where life is a little unusual, improvised, independent and outside the mainstream. 2012 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Black, Keith Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles A renowned neurosurgeon shares dramatic accounts of cases which detail the human brain's inner workings and the cutting-edge techniques that are used to safeguard and extend life. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) | |
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Chen, Pauline W. Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections On Mortality Chen goes into medicine with her sights set on saving lives, but experience proves that death plays a major role in her work. To help deal with the difficult issues of mortality, she turns to writing. The result is this collection of beautifully crafted stories that display her talent as both physician and writer. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Davis, Sampson. Living and Dying in Brick City: An E.R. Doctor Returns Home This account of the healthcare crisis in the inner city from a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the community where he grew up reveals the complicated human realities behind the statistics. 2013 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Donaldson, Ross I. The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases An untried medical student travels to Sierra Leone to help control the spread of lassa fever and in the process battles poor working conditions, political strife, and contracts the disease himself. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Firlik, Katrina Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life On the Inside A young female neurosurgeon journeys inside the world of brain surgery to provide an honest and explicit view of her work including the tools of the trade, surgical procedures, tough ethical dilemmas, and some of her own unusual and compelling cases. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Fischer, Conrad Routine Miracles: Personal Journeys of Patients and Doctors Discovering the Power of Modern Medicine An award-winning internist and educator investigates the disconnect between medical advances and the rise of physician dissatisfaction. Based upon findings from surveys and interviews of both physicians and patients, he offers a deeply personal and compelling call to action to celebrate the present and the future of medicine. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Gawande, Atul Better: A Surgeon's Notes On Performance A surgeon provides an honest, first-hand account of efforts to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, discussing such topics as surgical errors, malpractice, the ethics of lethal injections, and the influence of money on modern medicine. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Gawande, Atul Complications: A Surgeon's Notes On an Imperfect Science Drawing from compelling true accounts of patients and doctors, Gawande examines the power and limits of modern medicine, revealing a world where science is uncertain, information is limited, and deadly mistakes occur. 2002 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Hnida, Dave Paradise General: Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq A trauma chief documents his experience working with a diverse group of volunteer doctors at one of the busiest Combat Support Hospitals in Iraq where the main objective was, "Get 'em in, get 'em out." 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Holland, Julie Weekends at Bellevue A Bellevue weekend physician laces humor into her unvarnished look at life in the Psych ER with stories from her vast case file that are alternately terrifying, tragically comic, and profoundly moving. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Jauhar, Sandeep Intern: A Doctor's Initiation A cardiologist provides an account of his internship and residency at a busy New York City hospital, detailing the brutal hours in a medical establishment that seems to place patients' concerns last. As a patient himself, he also shares his experiences seeing things from the other side. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Larimore, Walter L. Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor's First Year of Practice in the Smoky Mountains Chronicling the rite of passage from medical student to family physician in a small Appalacian hamlet, Larimore discovers there are some things in rural practice that cannot be learned in medical school. 2002 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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Linde, Paul R. Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist A behind-the-scenes look at an urban psychiatric emergency room where mental health professionals are doing their best to alleviate suffering while struggling with the many ethical, legal, moral, and medical issues that confront today's psychiatric providers. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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MacDonald, Roger A. A Country Doctor's Casebook: Tales from the North Woods MacDonald, who worked as a family doctor in the Minnesota north woods from 1948 to 1980, contributes a collection of vignettes that takes the reader back to a time when a rural physician was a jack-of-all-trades and diagnosis was as much an art as a science. 2002 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) | |
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Magliato, Kathy Healing Hearts: a Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon One of the world's few female heart surgeons takes us into her highly demanding, physically intense, male-dominated world and shows us how she masterfully works to save patients lives every day. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) | |
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Morris, Charles R. The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center By "embedding" himself with a surgical team at New York-Presbyterian Hospital the author witnesses sophisticated operations, the brutal daily regimen faced by trainees and surgeons, and the process through which doctors evaluate themselves, their colleagues, and new technologies. He also documents the fifty years of research and hundreds of millions of dollars that have been expended on creating a reliable mechanical heart. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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