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Something for the pain
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Paul Austin |
In this riveting memoir, an ER doctor reveals how his high-stress career of helping others led to a struggle to save himself. |
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The Eden express
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Mark Vonnegut |
"The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s - a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, … |
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Through the glass wall
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Howard Buten |
A clinical psychologist and researcher journeys into the minds of the autistic, going beyond traditional methodology to breach the walls that close off autistics from the rest of the world and releas… |
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Divided minds
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Pamela Spiro Wagner |
Relates the stories of a pair of identical twin sisters, a schizophrenic and a psychiatrist, in an account that traces the deterioration of the favored sister into mental illness, and the other's eme… |
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On call in hell
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Cdr. Richard Jadick,Richard Jadick,Thomas Hayden |
Chronicles the experiences of a thirty-eight-year-old Navy doctor during the Battle of Fallujah, when he and his medical team worked around the clock under fire to save the lives of troops involved i… |
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Breathing for a living
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Laura Rothenberg |
A twenty-one-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis shares her decision to accept a lung transplant and muses on the challenges of her disease, the surgery, her recovery period, and the ongoing confront… |
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My story of the war
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Mary Ashton Rice Livermore |
When secessionist chaos turned to bloodshed in 1861, Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905), editor, lecturer, and abolitionist, left her family and volunteered for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, becoming one … |
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House on fire
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William H. Foege |
"A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular… |
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Live strong
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Lance Armstrong Foundation |
A compilation of candid stories, anecdotes, and essays by cancer survivors who discuss the impact of the disease on their lives covers relationships, employment discrimination, coping with medical bi… |
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Food and loathing
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Betsy Lerner |
The author traces her lifetime struggle with an eating disorder and depression, describing how her size and self-esteen were intertwined, her experiences with support groups and therapy, her educatio… |
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Let's pretend this never happened (a mostly true memoir)
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Jennie Goodrich |
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opport… |
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God's hotel
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Victoria Sweet |
"San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-Dieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicia… |
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Knocking on heaven's door
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Katy Butler |
"An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magaz… |
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Thirty-five years in the tower
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Solomon Papper |
xi, 155 pages : 25 cm |
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His Bright Light
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Danielle Steel |
Danielle Steel's moving personal story of the son she lost to manic depression.This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold and a tortured soul.'From the day he wa… |
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The nurses
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Alexandra Robbins |
In a gripping, behind-the-scenes look filled with drama, miracles, heartbreak, humor and unsung heroism, an award-winning journalist chronicles a year in the lives of four real-life hospital nurses, … |
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Saving Gotham
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Tom Farley |
A behind-the-scenes look at a controversial -- and successful -- public health initiative recounts how Dr. Thomas Frieden, as the health commissioner of New York City in 2002, and his team prohibited… |
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How Have I Cheated Death?
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Tim Wotton |
"Cystic fibrosis sufferer Tim Wotton was told from an early age that he would not live beyond his 17th birthday, then his 30th, and now his 40th and beyond. One of the oldest survivors of this crippl… |
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The Tennis Partner (ARC)
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Abraham Verghese,A. Verghese |
Verghese's marriage is unraveling. He relocates to El Paso, Texas, hoping to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. He meets David, a medical student and former tennis pro, and … |
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Beyond the Body Farm
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Jon Jefferson,Bill Bass,William M. Bass |
There is no scientist in the world like Dr. Bill Bass. A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition—three acres of land … |
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