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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande  
Powells.com 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...
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
Powells.com Staff Pick Musicophilia is a fascinating look at music and its effects on our brains. Who but Oliver Sacks could make such a compulsively readable book? Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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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...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Publisher Comments In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who...
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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 —...
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Publisher Comments Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers — including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is...
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Seeing Voices
by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments "This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought--. Sacks [is] one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a...
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Cause of Death: The Truth about How People Die
by Jack Mingo Publisher Comments 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...
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of 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...
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Uncle Tungsten : Memories of Chem. Boyhood (01 Edition)
by Oliver Sacks
Publisher Comments From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family of doctors, metallurgists, chemists...
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Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice
by Emily R., M.d. Transue Publisher Comments Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice. As she strives to help her patients face a range of challenges from the humorous to the...
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The Medical Science of House, M.D.
by Andrew Holtz Publisher Comments The facts behind the addictive medical drama starring Golden Globe winner Hugh Laurie. Week after week, House, M.D. has held viewers' attention with brilliant cast performances and intriguing diagnostic mysteries often solved with daring treatments...
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The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine
by Frank Huyler Publisher Comments A work of rare poetic insight, The Blood of Strangers combines visceral portrayals of critical medical situations with lyrical meditations on the world of ER medicine-and the world at large. In twenty-eight crystalline vignettes, Dr. Frank Huyler brings...
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A World of Light
by Floyd Skloot Publisher Comments From the winner of the 2004 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction. In his award-winning memoir In the Shadow of Memory, Floyd Skloot told the hard story of coming to terms with a brain-ravaging virus. A World of Light, written with...
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Stupid Reasons People Die: An Ingenious Plot for Defusing Deadly Diseases
by John Corso Book News Annotation As part of Dr. Corso's prescription for the U.S. healthcare system that "plays Russian Roulette with patient lives," the internist views each patient as a partner in preventing catastrophic illness. He examines beliefs behind the traditional passive...
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Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes
by Robert M Wachter Publisher Comments "Internal Bleeding is utterly compelling. Dramatic and unflinching, it gives us both the stories of what really happens when things go wrong in medicine and the research that explains what needs to be done. The writing is clear. The ideas are startling...
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The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths
by Sherwin B Nuland Publisher Comments In The Mysteries Within, the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of How We Die takes us inside our own bodies to show how we continue to cling to myth and superstition even as our knowledge of our most hidden inner organs increases. As a...
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Walk on Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit
by Michael Ruhlman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-336)....
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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...
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The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness
by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments With The Measure of Our Days, Dr. Jerome Groopman establishes himself as an eloquent new voice in the literature of medicine. In these eight moving portraits of patients facing serious illness, he offers us a compelling look at what it is to be learned...
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