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Letters to a Young Therapist

by Mary Pipher ...

A bestselling author and gifted healer’s guidance on how therapy can restore us in an increasingly stressful world.**“A wise and compassionate book.” -**Washington PostIn Letters to a Young Therapist, psychologist Mary Pipher shares what she has learned in thirty years of clinical practice helping warring families, alienated adolescents, and harried professionals restore peace and beauty to their ... Read more

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A bestselling author and gifted healer’s guidance on how therapy can restore us in an increasingly stressful world.**“A wise and compassionate book.” -**Washington PostIn Letters to a Young Therapist, psychologist Mary Pipher shares what she has learned in thirty years of clinical practice helping warring families, alienated adolescents, and harried professionals restore peace and beauty to their
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White Hot Light

Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine

by Frank Huyler ...

FINALIST FOR THE JAN MICHALSKI PRIZE FOR LITERATUREAnother "pitch-perfect book of short essays" ( New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER.In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of ... Read more

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FINALIST FOR THE JAN MICHALSKI PRIZE FOR LITERATUREAnother "pitch-perfect book of short essays" ( New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER.In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of
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Riding the Lightning

A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic

by Anthony Almojera ...

“An intense look at the high-stakes world of a NYC paramedic in the months before and after COVID-19 altered our landscape.”—Damon Tweedy, MD, author of Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and MedicineThe education of a New York City paramedic, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single year culminate in the greatest challenge the city’s emergency medical system ... Read more

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“An intense look at the high-stakes world of a NYC paramedic in the months before and after COVID-19 altered our landscape.”—Damon Tweedy, MD, author of Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and MedicineThe education of a New York City paramedic, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single year culminate in the greatest challenge the city’s emergency medical system
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The Immune Mystery

A Doctor's Impassioned Quest to Solve the Puzzle of Autoimmune Disease

by Anita Dr. Kåss ...

Translated by Alison McCullough ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, 23.5 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases (more than seven percent of the population)Published to coincide with World Autoimmune Arthritis Day (May 20)Immune Mystery is both a window into autoimmunity and a deeply moving memoir of Dr. Anita Kåss’s personal connection to autoimmune diseases and her quest to help fight them.Kåss is a ... Read more

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According to the National Institutes of Health, 23.5 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases (more than seven percent of the population)Published to coincide with World Autoimmune Arthritis Day (May 20)Immune Mystery is both a window into autoimmunity and a deeply moving memoir of Dr. Anita Kåss’s personal connection to autoimmune diseases and her quest to help fight them.Kåss is a
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Le cancer du conjoint

by Stéphane Lemercier ...

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"Le cancer n'affecte jamais qu'une seule personne. Il bouleverse des vies entières, s'insinuant au cœur des familles, des couples et des foyers."Dans cet essai poignant, Stéphane Lemercier aborde un sujet rarement exploré : la vie aux côtés d’un conjoint atteint d’un cancer. Tandis que le malade mobilise toutes ses forces pour combattre la maladie, l’accompagnant est entraîné dans une épreuve de ... Read more

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"Le cancer n'affecte jamais qu'une seule personne. Il bouleverse des vies entières, s'insinuant au cœur des familles, des couples et des foyers."Dans cet essai poignant, Stéphane Lemercier aborde un sujet rarement exploré : la vie aux côtés d’un conjoint atteint d’un cancer. Tandis que le malade mobilise toutes ses forces pour combattre la maladie, l’accompagnant est entraîné dans une épreuve de
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Soins de fin de vie

by Jocelyne Saint-Arnaud, Delphine Roigt ...

Il s’agit d’un sujet dont personne n’aime parler, mais qui est incontournable, car nul n’échappe à la mort. Tôt ou tard elle viendra nous chercher. Aussi bien que ça se passe pour le mieux. Ce n’est pas tant la mort que l’on craint que ce qui la précède. Personne ne veut mourir lentement dans la souffrance. Pour cela, plusieurs décisions doivent être prises: si nous sommes atteints d’une maladie ... Read more

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Il s’agit d’un sujet dont personne n’aime parler, mais qui est incontournable, car nul n’échappe à la mort. Tôt ou tard elle viendra nous chercher. Aussi bien que ça se passe pour le mieux. Ce n’est pas tant la mort que l’on craint que ce qui la précède. Personne ne veut mourir lentement dans la souffrance. Pour cela, plusieurs décisions doivent être prises: si nous sommes atteints d’une maladie
... Read more
Profession médecin de famille

by Marc Zaffran ...

« Médecin de famille » L’expression en dit beaucoup plus qu’on ne l’imagine. Cette figure est chargée de symboles, de souvenirs d’enfance, d’émotions intenses et d’expériences de vie marquantes. Elle véhicule son poids d’histoire et de réalité contemporaine. Et, parce que l’expression est riche, il est difficile d’en faire le tour en quelques mots ou quelques pages. Marc Zaffran raconte ici ... Read more

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« Médecin de famille » L’expression en dit beaucoup plus qu’on ne l’imagine. Cette figure est chargée de symboles, de souvenirs d’enfance, d’émotions intenses et d’expériences de vie marquantes. Elle véhicule son poids d’histoire et de réalité contemporaine. Et, parce que l’expression est riche, il est difficile d’en faire le tour en quelques mots ou quelques pages. Marc Zaffran raconte ici
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I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag

A Memoir of Life Through Events, the Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't

by Jennifer Gilbert ...

A warm, wise, and wholly original memoir of survival, renewal, and transformation, by one of New York City’s most successful and respected special events coordinatorsWith her top-level events company, Save the Date, Jennifer Gilbert has worked with Fortune 500 companies, broadcast media giants, international nonprofit organizations, and celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Bill Gates and beyond. Yet ... Read more

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A warm, wise, and wholly original memoir of survival, renewal, and transformation, by one of New York City’s most successful and respected special events coordinatorsWith her top-level events company, Save the Date, Jennifer Gilbert has worked with Fortune 500 companies, broadcast media giants, international nonprofit organizations, and celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Bill Gates and beyond. Yet
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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

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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
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How Not to be A Doctor

And Other Essays

by John Launer ...

"Humorous, poignant, provocative and educational," this essay collection by a doctor "offer[s] fresh takes on the ever-changing field of medicine." ( Kirkus Reviews)Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. How Not to be a Doctor includes over fifty of his essays covering a range of topics including music, poetry, literature, and ... Read more

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"Humorous, poignant, provocative and educational," this essay collection by a doctor "offer[s] fresh takes on the ever-changing field of medicine." ( Kirkus Reviews)Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. How Not to be a Doctor includes over fifty of his essays covering a range of topics including music, poetry, literature, and
... Read more
Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

by Atul Gawande ...

2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction“No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing....Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the MoonIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits ... Read more

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2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction“No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing....Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the MoonIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits
... Read more
Healthy Brain, Happy Life

A Personal Program to to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better

by Wendy Suzuki, Billie Fitzpatrick ...

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide to improving your brain health—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive ... Read more

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A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide to improving your brain health—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive
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Better

A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

by Atul Gawande ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession.**The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession.**The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more
... Read more
Love, Loss, and What We Ate

A Memoir

by Padma Lakshmi ...

A vivid celebrity chef memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn.Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an ... Read more

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A vivid celebrity chef memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn.Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an
... Read more
Everything Is Wrong with Me

A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong

by Jason Mulgrew ...

“People who grow up like this tend to become agoraphobics, serial killers, or really funny writers. Mulgrew, I think – hope? – is the last of these three things. His stories of childhood made me laugh out loud.” — Rob McElhenney, star, creator, and producer of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia“The somewhat alarming, always interesting world inside Jason’s brain has now been strewn across the pages ... Read more

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“People who grow up like this tend to become agoraphobics, serial killers, or really funny writers. Mulgrew, I think – hope? – is the last of these three things. His stories of childhood made me laugh out loud.” — Rob McElhenney, star, creator, and producer of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia“The somewhat alarming, always interesting world inside Jason’s brain has now been strewn across the pages
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Heart Matters

A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon

by Kathy Magliato M.D. ...

An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeonDr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those surgeons specially trained to perform heart transplants. Heart Matters is the story of the making ... Read more

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An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeonDr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those surgeons specially trained to perform heart transplants. Heart Matters is the story of the making
... Read more
Ink in the Blood

A Hospital Diary

by Hilary Mantel ...

Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.Originally published in the London Review of Books, this diary by the acclaimed author Hilary Mantel explores in forensic detail her loss of dignity, her determination, the concentration of the senses into an animalistic struggle to get through, and ... Read more

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Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.Originally published in the London Review of Books, this diary by the acclaimed author Hilary Mantel explores in forensic detail her loss of dignity, her determination, the concentration of the senses into an animalistic struggle to get through, and
... Read more
The Empathy Exams

Essays

by Leslie Jamison ...

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic ... Read more

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From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic
... Read more
La santé repensée

Cessez de chercher la pilule miracle, agissez différemment

by Dr Gaétan Brouillard ...

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Nous cherchons souvent le remède miracle à nos maux, la pilule qui permettrait d'enrayer rapidement nos symptômes. Il n'existe toutefois aucune solution «toute prête» pour nous prémunir contre les nombreuses maladies chroniques qui prolifèrent actuellement. Cela dit, le Dr Brouillard nous invite à prendre notre santé en mains en adoptant une vision globale qui réconcilie le corps, le cœur et l ... Read more

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Nous cherchons souvent le remède miracle à nos maux, la pilule qui permettrait d'enrayer rapidement nos symptômes. Il n'existe toutefois aucune solution «toute prête» pour nous prémunir contre les nombreuses maladies chroniques qui prolifèrent actuellement. Cela dit, le Dr Brouillard nous invite à prendre notre santé en mains en adoptant une vision globale qui réconcilie le corps, le cœur et l
... Read more
Happy Accidents

Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century

by Morton A. Meyers ...

Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In the 1990s, ... Read more

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Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In the 1990s,
... Read more
What Doctors Feel

How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

by Danielle Ofri ...

A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient carePhysicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice have a profound impact on ... Read more

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A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient carePhysicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice have a profound impact on
... Read more
God's Hotel

A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

by Victoria Sweet ...

**Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now!For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle).**San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s hotel) that cared for the sick in the ... Read more

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**Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now!For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle).**San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s hotel) that cared for the sick in the
... Read more
The Making of a Nurse

by Tilda Shalof ...

The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories.Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life—at home for her family, at work for strangers—but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to her current position on an ICU team in one of Canada’s largest hospitals, there have always been daunting challenges and worthy rewards ... Read more

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The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories.Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life—at home for her family, at work for strangers—but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to her current position on an ICU team in one of Canada’s largest hospitals, there have always been daunting challenges and worthy rewards
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What Patients Taught Me

A Medical Student's Journey

by Audrey Young ...

Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this book explores some of the difficult and deeply personal questions a 23-year-old doctor confronts with her very first dying patient, and continues to struggle with as she strives to become a good doctor. In her ... Read more

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Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this book explores some of the difficult and deeply personal questions a 23-year-old doctor confronts with her very first dying patient, and continues to struggle with as she strives to become a good doctor. In her
... Read more

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