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  • Are Those Real?

    True Tales of Plastic Surgery from Beverly Hills

    by Norman Leaf ...
    Americans have long been fascinated by the personal lives of Hollywood celebrities and the over-hyped magic of plastic surgery. In this entertaining memoir, Dr. Norman Leaf, a highly respected plastic surgeon, reveals the complex and all-too-human connection that exists between these two worlds. In his thirty-five years practicing in Beverly Hills, California, Leaf has encountered the great and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Darkness Visible

    A Memoir of Madness

    by William Styron ...
    The New York Times– bestselling memoir of crippling depression and the struggle for recovery by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie's Choice .In the summer of 1985, William Styron became numbed by disaffection, apathy, and despair, unable to speak or walk while caught in the grip of advanced depression. His struggle with the disease culminated in a wave of obsession that... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Every Patient Tells a Story

    Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

    by Lisa Sanders ...
    A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D."The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Believe Me

    My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease

    by Yolanda Hadid, Michele Bender ...
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star's "inspiring story" of a medical mystery, a Lyme diagnosis, and a quest for strength and healing (Dr. Richard Horowitz, New York Times–bestselling author).In early 2011, Yolanda Hadid was struck by mysterious symptoms including brain fog, severe exhaustion, migraines, and more. Over the months and years that followed, she went from being an outspoken, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Between Expectations

    Lessons from a Pediatric Residency

    by Meghan Weir ...
    When Dr. Meghan Weir first dons her scrubs and steps onto the floor of Children’s Hospital Boston as a newly minted resident, her head is packed with medical-school-textbook learning. She knows the ins and outs of the human body, has memorized the correct way to perform hundreds of complicated procedures, and can recite the symptoms of any number of diseases by rote. But none of that has truly ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Intern

    A Doctor's Initiation

    by Sandeep Jauhar ...
    Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency—and especially the first year, called internship—is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their first year asking themselves why they wanted to be ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Love and Laughter in the Time of Chemotherapy

    by Manjusha Pawagi ...
    Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be honest, you thought you'd live forever. She describes how even the darkest moments of life can be made worse with roommates; details how much determination it ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • In Case Of Fire

    please remain calm then slowly rebuild your life

    by Spencer Beach, Naomi K Lewis ...
    In the months and years after the fire that disabled me, disfigured me, and almost killed me, I went through serious depression, excruciating therapy, and intense psychological counseling. I lived in pain and saw how I’d hurt everyone I cared about. I assessed and reassessed my attitudes and my life. Why did this happen to me? What did it mean? And, finally, how could I stop it from happening to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Inside The Mental

    Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

    by Kay Parley ...
    Series series The Regina Collection
    Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met. Part memoir, part history, and beautifully written, Inside The Mental offers an episodic journey into the stigma, horror, and redemption that she found within the institution's walls.Now in her nineties, Parley looks back ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Mountain Rescue Doctor

    Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature

    by Christopher Van Tilburg ...
    A memoir from a doctor who rescues hikers, bikers, rafters, and skiers from the wilderness, as part of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country.Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview

    And Other Conversations

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readersOliver Sacks—called “the poet laureate of medicine” by the New York Times—illuminated the mysteries of the brain for a wide audience in a series of richly acclaimed books, including Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and numerous New Yorker ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Rise and Shine

    The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Journey from Near Death to Full Recovery

    by Simon Lewis ...
    When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. My wife Marcy died instantly that day. With brain damage from a massive stroke and my body broken, I wasn’t expected to survive either.”So begins Rise and Shine, the dramatic story of Simon Lewis and his remarkable recovery from a horrific car ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus