Miracles and Mayhem in the ER: Unbelievable True Stories from an Emergency Room Doctor

Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon

Nick Trout · 287 pages

It's 2:47 a.m. when Dr. Nick Trout takes the phone call that starts another hectic day at the Angell Animal Medical Center. Sage, a ten-year old German shepherd, will die without emergency surgery for a serious stomach condition. Over the next twenty-four hours Dr. Trout fights for Sage's life, battles disease in the operating room, unravels tricky diagnoses, reassures frantic pet parents, and ref

Sick Notes: A Doctor's Tale From The Front Lines Of Medicine

Tony Copperfield · 263 pages

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Adam Kay · 278 pages

As soon as Adam Kay set foot on a hospital ward for the first time, he realized there's quite a lot they don't teach you at medical school ... His diaries from the NHS front line - scribbled in secret after long nights, endless days and missed weekends - are hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns. This Is Going to Hurt is everything you wanted to know about being a junior doctor, and mor

Confessions of a GP

Benjamin Daniels · 350 pages

Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon

Henry Marsh · 271 pages

Traces the author's post-retirement work as a surgeon and teacher in such remote areas as Nepal and Ukraine, illuminating the challenges of working in difficult regions and finding purposeful work after a career.

No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses

Peter Piot · 387 pages

A microbiologist describes his adventure-filled career, discussing his time spent in Central Africa in the 1970s identifying the Ebola virus and his work there again in the 1980s as part of the area's first international AIDS efforts.

A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student

Perri Klass · 279 pages

Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.

Julie Holland · 310 pages

Documents a psychiatrist's employment at New York City's Bellevue Hospital while sharing the life lessons she learned from her patients and colleagues, describing some of the more remarkable cases of her career and their influences on her family life.

In Stitches

Anthony Youn · 271 pages

The celebrity cosmetic surgery blogger describes his misfit youth as a nerdy Korean-American student with a misshapen jaw whose life-changing surgery led him to become a successful plastic surgeon.

Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

Damon Tweedy · 304 pages

"One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans. When Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Ben Carson, Cecil Murphey · 224 pages

Ben Carson, M.D., works medical miracles. Today, he's one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33.

A Journey Round My Skull

Frigyes Karinthy · 288 pages

The author's account of his own life when he was suffeing from a brain tumor.

Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor

Max Pemberton · 340 pages

The diary of the man who writes under the pseudonym of 'Max Pemberton' runs from 4th August, when he began his first placement as a junior doctor, and charts the touching and funny journey through his first year in the NHS.

Run, Don't Walk: The Curious and Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Adele Levine · 348 pages

"M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, absurdly funny, inspiring, and totally unique debut memoir from a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the birthplace of physical therapy and the world leader in prosthetic rehabilitation for injured war veterans"--

Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

Sandeep Jauhar · 320 pages

Intern is Dr. 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 his every assumption about medical care today. Residency―and especially its first year, the internship―is legendary for its brutality, and Jauhar's experience was even more harrowing than most. He switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a mo

Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burnout in the ER

Paul Austin · 304 pages

In this riveting memoir, an ER doctor reveals how his high-stress career of helping others led to a struggle to save himself.

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

Gabriel Weston · 205 pages

Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe

Sorrel King · 273 pages

Medical errors are a leading cause of death in the United States, but the subject has long been taboo. All that changed with Josie. Sorrel King's 18-month-old daughter was badly burned, but in the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, she made a remarkable recovery. Then, as she was preparing to leave, Josie was given a fatal shot of methadone, sending her into cardiac arrest. Within 48 hours, th

In Stitches

Nick Edwards · 272 pages

'Despite the headlines, actually the NHS has just had its best year ever.' Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of Sate for Health, eulogising to the BBC, 22nd April 2006'Despite what the politicians say, things seem to have gone a bit tits-up recently.' Dr. Nick Edwards, A&E doctor, ranting to his mates down the pub, 22nd April 2006Dr Nick Edwards is an Accident and Emergency (A&E) doctor working in the UK

The Night Shift: Real Life In The Heart Of The E.R.

Brian Goldman · 288 pages

In The Night Shift, Dr. Brian Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an E.R. after midnight: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last call, teens assaulted in the streets by other teens and a woman who punches another woman out of jealousy over a man. But Goldman also reveals the

Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon

Kathy Magliato · 261 pages

An inspiring, surprising, and deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes life of a female heart surgeon.

Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

Peggy Vincent · 336 pages

Each time she knelt to "catch" another wriggling baby -- nearly three thousand times during her remarkable career -- California midwife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy and the world makes way for one more. With every birth, she encounters another woman-turned-goddess: Catherine rides out her labor in a car careening down a mountain road. Sofia spends hers trying to ke

A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

Kevin Hazzard · 261 pages

"A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life--his days were too safe, too routine. A failed salesman turned local reporter, he wanted to test himself,

A Leg to Stand On

Oliver Sacks · 222 pages

Dr. Oliver Sacks's books *Awakenings*, *An Anthropologist on Mars* and the bestselling *The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat* have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In *A Leg to Stand On*, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely