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1	My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey more books like this by Jill B Taylor add to wishlist Jill Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, she watched her mind deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of the brain, her respect for the cells in her body, and an amazing ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science more books like this by Atul Gawande add to wishlist A book about medicine that reads like a thriller, "Complications" is "a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies" (Adam Gopnik, author of "From Paris to the Moon"). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.42! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Strength in What Remains more books like this by Tracy Kidder add to wishlist The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classics "Mountains Beyond Mountains" and "The Soul of a New Machine" returns with the extraordinary true story of a young man and his will to turn his life into something truly remarkable. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $15.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story more books like this by Benjamin S Carson, Sr., M.D. add to wishlist Gifted Hands dose not just shed light on a ghetto youth with failing grades who became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Univesity Hospital at age 33. It takes readers into the operating room to watch incredibly complex, delicate, life-saving surgeries. "He is a model to all the youth of today".--Jesse Jackson. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal more books like this by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. add to wishlist Inspirational and moving, KITCHEN TABLE WISDOM is a thought-provoking collection of stories and personal anecdotes. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen wants her readers to appreciate the healing life force they all possess and to look at life as the gift it is. Dr. Remen conveys her wonder of life's mysteries in a profound way that never lowers itself to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Mountains Beyond Mountains more books like this by Tracy Kidder add to wishlist Dr. Paul Farmer of Massachusetts began working in Haiti in 1982, providing health care for peasants who can't afford doctors to treat the diseases that are rampant there, including TB. In 1993 Farmer was given a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," which he has used to further his work in Haiti. Tracy Kidder followed Farmer on his rounds and on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream more books like this by Dr. Sampson Davis, Dr. George Jenkins, Dr. Rameck Hunt add to wishlist In this memoir of success, three men tell how, by hanging together, they got themselves out of Newark, into a program for minority youth, and through medical school. They supported each other and eventually realized their dreams of careers in medicine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Notes Left Behind more books like this by Brooke Desserich, Keith Desserich add to wishlist "Notes Left Behind" tells the heartbreaking story of young Elena Desserich's battle with brain cancer as told through the eyes of the parents who survived her. "This is a stunning story that teaches us how precious children, family, and life are.--James Patterson. see all copies from $8.82! new only from $11.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Against Medical Advice: A True Story more books like this by James Patterson, Hal Friedman add to wishlist In this nonfiction work with the pace of a thriller, Patterson tells the extraordinary and dramatic true story of one family's struggle with an agonizing medical mystery that began when the Friedmans' five-year-old son began having irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances.Little, Brown and Company see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time more books like this by Michael Perry add to wishlist Michael Perry is a volunteer firefighter in New Auburn, Wisconsin--a declining town where the values of community remain strong, despite all the exterior changes. In this collection of essays, Perry writes about the town, his place in it, and some of his neighbors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	My Own Country: A Doctor's Story more books like this by Abraham Verghese, M.D., Abraham Vergehese add to wishlist Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City saw its first AIDS patient in August 1985. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases who became, by necessity, the local AIDS expert. Out of his experience comes a startling, ultimately uplifting portrait of ... see all copies from $2.97! new only from $6.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	All Creatures Great and Small more books like this by James Herriot add to wishlist Comprises James Herriot's first two books "If Only They Could Talk" and "It Shouldn't Happen To a Vet", together with three chapters from "Let Sleeping Vets Lie". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	My Lobotomy: A Memoir more books like this by Howard Dully, Charles Fleming add to wishlist Dully became, at age 12, one of the youngest victims of the infamous ice-pick lobotomy. The story of his courageous journey to understand why this nightmare happened is told here. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing more books like this by Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D., Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt add to wishlist In this memoir, a doctor who is half Navajo explains how she had to deny her indigenous beliefs in order to become a surgeon of conventional Western medicine. She also explains how she introduced Navajo customs to her operating room in order to accommodate her Navajo patients who were reluctant to undergo surgery. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Girl Interrupted more books like this by Susanna Kaysen add to wishlist Susanna Kaysen entered a psychiatric institution when she was 18 for an extended rest. In GIRL, INTERRUPTED, she writes about this period of her life, revealing not only the intricacies of the mind, as observed in herself and her ward-mates, but also the intricacies of the institution. This memoir has touched many people and, in 1999, was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind more books like this by Eric R Kandel, M.D. add to wishlist This "important and marvelous book" ("The New York Times") gives Eric Kandel's account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence of a new science. It relates the story of how four distinct disciplines - behaviourist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and molecular biology - converged into a powerful ... see all copies from $7.90! new only from $12.59! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph Over Autism more books like this by Catherine Maurice add to wishlist This is the profound moving story, told by their mother, of how two children were rescued from the tragedy of autism - and the first account in which diagnosis, therapy and authentic recovery are fully documented. From the opening page, when we are present at the first birthday party of Ann-Marie Maurice, readers of this extraordinary book enter ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.85! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole more books like this by Dr. Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers add to wishlist Drawn to the South Pole by both her spirit of adventure and her altruism as a medical doctor, Dr. Nielson thought an expedition would be the perfect therapy after a painful divorce. However, once isolated in the pole, and unreachable for months because the temperature made it impossible to land a plane there, she discovered cancer in her own ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Solve your child's sleep problems more books like this by Richard Ferber, M.D. add to wishlist This updated edition of the book includes new information on such topics as how to get a child to go back to sleep without parental involvement, remedies for bedwetting, and the special sleep problems of twins. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Bryson City Secrets: Even More Tales of a Small-Town Doctor in the Smoky Mountains more books like this by Walt Larimore, MD add to wishlist Bryson City Secrets is a story-lover's delight about a doctor's first year of practice amidst Smoky Mountain personalities, highland wisdom, the tears, laughter, tenderness, faith, courage, and misadventures of small-town life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| SVS
21 view cover	Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality more books like this by Pauline Chen (Read by) add to wishlist Chen, a brilliant transplant surgeon, charts her personal and professional rites of passage in dealing with mortality. Focusing on the enormous moral and psychological pressures on doctors, Chen also reports on signs of change within the profession. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	All Things Bright and Beautiful more books like this by James Herriot add to wishlist This omnibus edition comprises Herriot's third and fourth books, "Let Sleeping Vets Lie" and "Vet in Harness". The first book covers his struggle to establish himself in Yorkshire as a vet, and the second introduces many new characters. Both are told with Herriot's usual insight and humour. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.85! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside more books like this by Katrina Firlik add to wishlist This compelling tell-all by a brilliant young doctor cracks open the demanding, fascinating world of brain surgery, doing for the neurosurgeon what "Kitchen Confidential" has done for the professional chef. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia more books like this by Marya Hornbacher add to wishlist This memoir details the author's struggles to overcome her eating disorders. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.49! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab more books like this by Christine Montross add to wishlist In this hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open, Montross provides an uncommon perspective on the emotional difficulty a first year medical student can face. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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