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  • Telltale Hearts

    A Public Health Doctor, His Patients, and the Power of Story

    by Dean-David Schillinger, MD ...
    A doctor's powerful meditation on what his patients taught him, and what they can teach us about listening, healing, and public health.For over three decades, Dr. Dean-David Schillinger has served in one of the country’s busiest and most important public hospitals. A public health leader and primary care physician for underserved patients, Schillinger learned that high-tech tests and novel ... Read more

    Was $24.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, Populations, Second Edition

    by Talmadge E. King, Margaret B. Wheeler, Alicia Fernandez, Dean Schillinger, Andrew B. Bindman, Kevin Grumbach, Teresa J. Villela ...
    The leading reference and text on the increasingly relevant and important topic of caring for underserved patients and those with highly unique health requirementsA Doody’s Core Title for 2019!The timely publication of Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice and Populations, Second Edition is designed to clarify current issues and instruct you in best ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

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    How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die

    by Blair Bigham, MD ...
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  • Vital Signs

    Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories of a junior doctor's first year

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  • What Doesn't Kill You

    A Life with Chronic Illness—Lessons from a Body in Revolt

    by Tessa Miller ...
    "Should be read by anyone with a body. . . . Relentlessly researched and undeniably smart."— The New York TimesNamed one of BuzzFeed's "Best Books of 2021"What Doesn't Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist's awakening to chronic illness, weaving together personal story and reporting to shed light on living with an ailment forever.Tessa Miller was an ambitious t... ... Read more

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  • The Language of Kindness

    A Nurse's Stories of Life, Death and Hope

    by Christie Watson ...
    An internationally bestselling, moving, lyrical, beautifully written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched.Christie Watson spent twenty years working as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and the patients who are ... Read more

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  • The Emergency

    A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

    by Thomas Fisher ...
    **The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind“Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are, especially when they go wrong.”—The New York TimesONE ... Read more

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  • Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician

    by Sandeep Jauhar ...
    In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. Doctored, his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist.Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Jauhar accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the outskirts of Queens. With ... Read more

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  • Extreme Measures

    Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

    by Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D. ...
    For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care—to become an ICU physician—and imagined ... Read more

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  • The Medicine

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    by Karen Hitchcock ...
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    A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER

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  • Letter to a Young Female Physician

    Thoughts on Life and Work

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    "A warm and wry epistle, the endless and near-perfect email you wish your mother, your mentor and your therapist would sit down and type out together." —Laura Kolbe, Wall Street JournalIn 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"—a long-held secret belief that she was not smart ... Read more

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