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All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot Paperback Book

The world's most beloved animal doctor delightfully continues where he left off in All Creatures Great and Small with new adventures through the Yorkshire dales-- and a whole new menagerie of memorable patients.Young James, now married and...

Publication Date: Jul 1998

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All Things Wise and Wonderful

by James Herriot

Readers adored his tales as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful-- now James Herriot treats us to another delightful volume of memoirs rich with his own brand of humor and wisdom.In...

Publication Date: Jul 1998

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The Pact

by Sampson Davis

They grew up on the streets of Newark, facing city life's temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the long, difficult...

Publication Date: May 2003

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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

by Pauline W. Chen

A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not...

Publication Date: Jan 2008

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Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burn-out in the ER

by Paul Austin

"What makes this inspiring medical memoir stand out is the courageous measure of Austin's humanity."—Publishers Weekly In this eye-opening account of life in the ER, Paul Austin recalls how the daily grind of...

Publication Date: Sep 2009

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In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

by Qanta Ahmed

In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr....

Publication Date: Sep 2008

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Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER

by Pamela Grim

In this outstanding collection of stories and 'lessons,' Pamela Grim, an emergency medicine physician, reveals the painful truths learned from the daily witnessing of the underside of life, where most who enter are addicts, idiots, drunks, and...

Publication Date: Jan 2002

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What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey

by Audrey Young

With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this compelling memoir of a 23-year-old doctor traveling throughout western rural communities reveals the emotional complexity of treating patients when their lives hang in the balance.

Publication Date: Aug 2007

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Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors

by Brian Eule

Each year on the third Thursday in March, more than fifteen thousand graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the result of a computer algorithm that assigns students to their hospital...

Publication Date: Mar 2010

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An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century

by James Orbinski

From one of the world's greatest humanitarian activists comes a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms. Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering, dispassion, and...

Publication Date: Sep 2009

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Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them

by Randy Christensen

The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a...

Publication Date: Apr 2012

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Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon

by Michael J. Collins

It looked for a while as if Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him...

Publication Date: May 2010

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Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles

by Keith Black

Welcome to tiger country: the treacherous territory where a single wrong move by a brain surgeon can devastate-or end-a patient's life. This is the terrain world-renowned neurosurgeon Keith Black, MD, enters every day to produce virtual medical...

Publication Date: Aug 2011

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Broken Justice

by Kenneth C. Edelin

Broken Justice is a true story about Dr. Ken Edelin, a young, black doctor who arrived in Boston in 1971 to do his residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston City Hospital. In April 1974 he was three months away from completing his...

Publication Date: Aug 2007

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Contact Wounds: A War Surgeon's Education

by Jonathan Kaplan

Growing up in Durban, South Africa, in the heat of social change, Jonathan Kaplan became a doctor who fled apartheid, taking charge of a combat-zone hospital in Angola where he was the only surgeon for 160,000 civilians. This is his stirring...

Publication Date: Oct 2006

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Direct Red: A Surgeon's View of Her Life-or-Death Profession

by Gabriel Weston

In the tradition of Atul Gawande and Sherwin B. Nuland comes an eloquent and piercing account of a young woman's surgical education. Surgeons have long been known for their allergy to doubt, an unsurprising trait in professionals who must...

Publication Date: Aug 2010

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Doctors Who Followed Christ: 32 Biographies of Historic Physicians and Their Christian Faith

by Dan Graves

Along with each biography is a brief overview of the major contributions each doctor made to the medical field. Includes such notable physicians as Hodgkin, Paget, Short, and Koop. (20040603)

Publication Date: Nov 1999

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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

by Benjamin S. Carson

This is the mass market edition of the popular book by Dr. Ben Carson whose inspiring story tells of a frustrated inner-city kid whose faith in God helped him become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.

Publication Date: Feb 1992

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Gray Matter: A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer . . . One Patient at a Time

by David Levy

A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile,...

Publication Date: Mar 2011

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ICE BOUND: A DOCTOR'S INCREDIBLE BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL AT THE SOUTH POLE

by Jerri Nielsen

Serving as doctor to the Americans 'wintering over' at the South Pole in 1999, Jerri Nielsen made headlines when she discovered a lump in her breast that a self-administered biopsy revealed to be an aggressive, fast-growing cancer. No flights in or...

Publication Date: Jan 2001

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In Stitches

by Anthony Youn

Tony Youn grew up up one of two Asian-American kids in a small town of near wall-to-wall whiteness. Too tall and too thin, he wore thick Coke-bottle glasses, braces, Hannibal Lecter headgear, and had a protruding jaw that one day began to grow,...

Publication Date: Feb 2012

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Memories of a Meltdown: An Egyptian Between Moscow and Chernobyl

by Mohamed Makhzangi

In the spring of 1986, Mohamed Makhzangi, an Egyptian doctor, was studying in Kiev. As a result, like thousands of others he found himself living a nuclear nightmare when the Chernobyl plant had a catastrophic meltdown. Blending the realism of...

Publication Date: Mar 2009

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On Call in Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story

by Richard Jadick

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...

Publication Date: Mar 2008

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One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient

by David Biro

It is a situation we all fear and none of us can imagine: a life-threatening diagnosis. But what if the person receiving the diagnosis--young, physically fit, poised for a bright future--is himself a doctor?At thirty-one David biro has...

Publication Date: Mar 2001

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Over My Head: A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out

by Claudia L. Osborn

Locked inside a brain-injured head looking out at a challenging world is the premise of this extraordinary autobiography. Over My Head is an inspiring story of how one woman comes to terms with the loss of her identity and the courageous steps (and...

Publication Date: Mar 2000

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Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice

by Emily R. Transue

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...

Publication Date: Apr 2009

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Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue

by Danielle Ofri

When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of New York's 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...

Publication Date: Apr 2009

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Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

by Richard Baer

One afternoon in 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatrist Richard Baer's office complaining of vague physical pains and depression. Odder still, she reveals that she's suffering from a persistent memory problem. Routinely, she "loses"...

Publication Date: Sep 2008

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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug

by Thomas Hager

The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In' The Demon Under the Microscope,' Thomas...

Publication Date: Aug 2007

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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis

by Sherwin B. Nuland

SURGEON, SCHOLAR, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignac Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that...

Publication Date: Jan 2003