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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande Publisher Comments A New York Times Bestseller In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Complications : a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (02 Edition) by Atul Gawande Publisher Comments In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande Staff Pick Who among us hasn't trembled at the very prospect of entering a doctor's office? It should give us all comfort, then, that bestselling author, general surgeon, and MacArthur Fellow Atul Gawande has written Better, a book that challenges surgeons to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Shadow of Memory (American Lives) by Floyd Skloot Publisher Comments In December 1988 Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain, leaving him totally disabled and utterly changed. In the Shadow of Memory is an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory and unstable... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Mind's Eye (Vintage) by Oliver Sacks Staff Pick Oliver Sacks, as fascinating, empathetic, and formidably talented as always, focuses on six individuals who've lost what we think of as essential abilities, including reading, face recognition, and speech. The Mind's Eye is a mesmerizing and exhilarating... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (Harvest Book) by Richard Selzer Publisher Comments In this collection of nineteen unforgettable essays, Dr. Selzer describes unsparingly the surgeons art. Both moving and perversely funny, Mortal Lessons is an established classic that considers not only the workings and misworkings of the human body but... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tennis Partner (P.S.) by Abraham Verghese Publisher Comments An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands — their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Doctoring: New, Revised and Expanded Third Edition by Richard Reynolds Publisher Comments Few subjects hold more universal appeal than that of medicine, and surely few books have evoked medicine's drama and magic more powerfully than On Doctoring. In its many forms, from age-old ritual to the cutting edge of modern science, medicine concerns... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Awakenings by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments "One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." --The Washington Post "Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Complications by Atul Gawande Publisher Comments A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine by Lisa Wong, Dr. Publisher Comments You may have read about the Longwood Symphony orchestra (LSO) in the paper or heard them on your favorite radio station. But the LSO is not just any orchestra. it began in 1982 with a group of talented Boston-area physicians, med students and health-care... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope by Allan J Hamilton Publisher Comments A Harvard-educated neurosurgeon reveals his experiences-in and out of the operating room-with apparitions, angels, exorcism, after-death survival, and the miracle of hope. The Scalpel and the Soul explores how premonition, superstition, hope, and faith... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays by Richard Selzer Publisher Comments Richard Selzer selects from his own classic essays, culled from three decades of writing. Published along with his favorites are five new essays, including "Phantom Vision" and "Braindeath," and an introduction detailing the making of this virtuoso... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Life in Medicine by Robert (edt) Coles Publisher Comments A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession who are struggling to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. Described as "an admirably... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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