Category: Medical

Better

By: Atul Gawande

Price: $9.25

Publisher: Picador : 2007

Seller ID: 0152410

ISBN-13: 9780312427658

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The 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 important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In this book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the f...
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David Suzuki Talks About Aids

By: David Suzuki

Price: $8.99

Publisher: General : 1987

Seller ID: 0057452

ISBN-13: 9780773671539

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

The Secret Language Of Doctors

By: Dr Brian Goldman

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Harper Collins : 2015

Seller ID: 0146129

ISBN-13: 9781443416023

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Facing Death and Grief

By: George N Marshall

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Prometheus : 1981

Seller ID: 0108862

ISBN-13: 9780879751401

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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Cause of Death

By: Jack Mingo

Price: $8.75

Publisher: Pocket : 2008

Seller ID: 0110801

ISBN-13: 9781416554790

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Very good

FACE IT. WE CAN GO ANYTIME. BUT IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS Death becomes you, and it's just another fact of life explored in "Cause of Death, " a revealing abundance of startling data, false perceptions, bizarre fallacies, and some totally unexpected statistics about how, why, when, and where we all bite the dust, check out, buy the farm, kick the bucket, and all those other euphemisms for perishing after falling out of bed (roughly 1,800 fitful sleepers a year). It also answers questions most people never even consider (but should): Do crocodiles kill more people than alligators? Are we m...
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The End Of Memory

By: Jay Ingram

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Harper Collins : 2014

Seller ID: 0137250

ISBN-13: 9781443435765

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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Playing God In The Nursery

By: Jeff Lyon

Price: $8.99

Publisher: W.W. Norton : 1985

Seller ID: 0084582

ISBN-13: 9780393018981

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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Ten Needles

By: Martin Latulippe

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Faye : 2007

Seller ID: 0065889

ISBN-13: 9782921824002

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Very good

End of the Rainbow

By: Mary Ann Crenshaw

Price: $8.99

Publisher: MacMillan : 1968

Seller ID: 0110205

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Discovery of Insulin

By: Michael Bliss

Price: $8.99

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart : 1982

Seller ID: 0107687

ISBN-13: 9780771015762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

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Medical Myths That Can Kill You

By: Nancy L Snyderman MD

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Crown : 2008

Seller ID: 0116143

ISBN-13: 9780307406132

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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Anatomy Of An Illness as Perceived By The Patient

By: Norman Cousins

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Bantam : 1991

Seller ID: 0049258

ISBN-13: 9780553343656

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Trauma Room Two

By: Philip Allen Green

Price: $8.99

Publisher: : 0000

Seller ID: 0152411

ISBN-13: 9781511900027

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

In every hospital emergency department there is a room reserved for trauma. It is a place where life and death are separated by the thinnest of margins. A place where some families celebrate the most improbable of victories while others face the most devastating of losses. A place where what matters the most in this life is revealed.Trauma Room Two is just such a place.In this collection of short stories, Dr. Green takes the reader inside the hidden emotional landscape of emergency medicine. Based on fifteen years of experience as an ER physician, he reveals the profound moments that often occ...
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Keep Sharp

By: Sanjay Gupta

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 2021

Seller ID: 0151837

ISBN-13: 9781501166730

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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War Hospital

By: Sheri Fink

Price: $11.75

Publisher: PublicAffairs : 2003

Seller ID: 0157612

ISBN-13: 9781586482671

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

From Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives. Drawing on extensive interviews, documents, and recorded materials she collected over four and a half years, doctor and journalist Sheri Fink tells the harrowing--and ultimately enlightening--...
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