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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder  
Powells.com Staff Pick "It's won the Pulitzer and for good reason; it's beautifully written, inspired, and gives you something to think about the rest of the year." Hilary, Powells...
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Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
by Rachel Simon Publisher Comments Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on...
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Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia
by Thomas, M.d. Graboys Publisher Comments At the age of 49, Dr. Thomas Graboys had reached the pinnacle of his career and was leading a charmed life. A nationally renowned Boston cardiologist popular for his attention to the hearts and souls of his patients, Graboys was part of “The...
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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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Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy
Publisher Comments "I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I'vespent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than lookingdifferent from everyone else. It was the pain from that, fromfeeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great...
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Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Like many loved ones of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler was devastated by the ravaging disease that seemed to turn her mother into another person before claiming her life altogether. To deal with the pain of her loss, and to better understand the...
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Emergency!
by Mark (com) Brown Publisher Comments * A suicide attempt by an "explosive" young man... * The "hidden secrets" of a grotesquely obese patient... * A couple whose amorous acrobatics get out of hand... * A child brought back from the dead... Bristling with the raw power of reality, this...
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The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon
by Thomas E Starzl Publisher Comments Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in the controversial field of transplant surgery...
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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...
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Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy Publisher Comments The bestselling memoir by a woman who survived terminal illness only to confront the tragedy of being deemed unacceptable in a world that worships physical beauty....
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Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir
by Richard Cohen Publisher Comments Illness came calling when Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. He was a young television news producer with expectations of a limitless future, and his foreboding that his health was not quite right turned into the harsh reality that something was...
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Intern
by Sandeep Jauhar Publisher Comments 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...
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On Call in Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story
by Cdr Richard Jadick Publisher Comments At age thirty-eight, Navy Dr. Richard Jadick was too old to be called up to the front lines-but not too old to volunteer. This is the inspiring story of one man's decision to enter into the fray-and a compelling account of courage under fire. Both...
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Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir
by David Rieff Publisher Comments Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life,...
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
by Wendy Moore Publisher Comments In an era when bloodletting was considered a cure for everything from colds to smallpox, surgeon John Hunter was a medical innovator, an eccentric, and the person to whom anyone who has ever had surgery probably owes his or her life. In this sensational...
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Cambodia Calling: A Memoir from the Frontlines of Humanitarian Aid
by Richard Heinzl Synopsis What's the matter? A mine? Some kid step on a mine? A blessure? No. Not a mine. We walk in and there's a mother standing by her child. It's a little girl. She's a very beautiful girl with straight black hair, maybe six or eight, big eyes, a bit younger...
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Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
by Danielle Ofri Synopsis When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of New Yorks legendary Bellevue Hospital as a tentative medical student, she is plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, overworked interns...
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Poster Child: A Memoir
by Emily Rapp Publisher Comments In the tradition of Autobiography of a Face, a gorgeously-written memoir about growing up with a transfiguring disability, by a young writer of uncommon talent. Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her...
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Sick Girl
by Amy Silverstein Publisher Comments “[With] humor and radiant courage . . . Silverstein delivers a searing insight into the battle to stay alive.”—Ted Koppel “Spectacular.”—Mehmet Oz, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon and coauthor of You: The Owner’s...
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His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine
by Jonathan Weiner Publisher Comments Jonathan Weiner on "His Brother's Keeper "His Brother's Keeper is the story of Stephen and Jamie Heywood, a carpenter and an engineer. Stephen, the carpenter, is twenty-nine years old when he learns that he is dying of ALS--Lou Gehrig's disease. His...
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