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  • The Heart of the Story

    My Improbable Journey as a Cardiologist

    The Heart of the Story: My Improbable Journey as a Cardiologist is an examination of the struggles and successes of one woman cardiologist. The story initially focuses on the unlikely path Dr. Joan Thomas took to become a cardiologist - a specialty still dominated by men.This inspiring memoir encourages the next generation of young women, whether just entering or already working in the medical ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Death Interrupted

    How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era.Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive almost indefinitely. But this unprecedented shift in intensive care has created a major crisis. In the widening ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apollo's Arrow

    The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

    A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—"excellent and timely." (The New Yorker)Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Knocking on Heaven's Door

    The Path to a Better Way of Death

    by Katy Butler ...
    In this visionary memoir, based on a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine story, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ponders her parents’ desires for “Good Deaths” and the forces within medicine that stood in the way.Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her vigorous and self-reliant parents when the call came: a crippling stroke had left her proud seventy-nine-year-old father unable ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Big Picture

    Getting Perspective on What's Really Important

    Dr. Ben Carson is known as the originator of groundbreaking surgical procedures and a doctor who turns impossible hopes into joyous realities. But where does this incredible drive and focus come from? According to Dr. Carson himself, the answer is simple: The Big Picture.Every day when Dr. Carson went to work as a surgeon, he had to make life-and-death decisions. For that reason, and because so ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Unaccountable

    What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

    by Marty Makary ...
    New York Times Bestseller“Every once in a while a book comes along that rocks the foundations of an established order that's seriously in need of being shaken. The modern American hospital is that establishment and Unaccountable is that book.”-Shannon Brownlee, author of OvertreatedDr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Plague Year

    America in the Time of Covid

    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it"A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • I Do Not Consent

    My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

    “The bumper-sticker directive to ‘follow the science’ was actually an evasion of responsibility. It let people off the hook for their bad decisions in a crisis. Was New York Governor Cuomo’s executive order sending COVID-hospitalized patients back to nursing homes to infect other vulnerable nursing home patients ‘following the science’? Of course not. And sending post-hospitalization COVID ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Cancer Olympics

    by Robin McGee ...
    National Indie Excellence Award Finalist (2016) for Cancer. Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner (2016) for Best Inspirational. Feathered Quill Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Inspirational (2016). Book Excellence Award Finalist (2016) for Inspiration. International Book Award Finalist (2015) for Health-Cancer. Readers’ Favorite Award Finalist (2015) for Grief-Hardship. USA Best Book Award ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Extreme Measures

    Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

    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

    $13.99 CAD

  • Dying for a Chat: Penguin Special

    Penguin Special

    We put much store in freedom of choice, but when it comes to our own medical diagnosis and treatment, are we equipped to make the best decisions? And are healthcare professionals properly prepared to guide us? Alarmingly, oncologist and award-winning writer Ranjana Srivastava says they're not, and people are suffering — even dying — as a result.The internet encourages people to self-diagnose and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Lifelines

    A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

    by Dr. Leana Wen ...
    A Rhodes Scholar turned physician offers an insider's account of public health and its critical role in our lives, from treating gun violence as a contagious disease to fighting COVID-19 disinformation."Public health saved your life today—you just don't know it," is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don't know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD