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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBlood, Sweat and Tea
Tom Reynolds · 272 pages
Is there anyone who hasnt wondered about the state of the occupant of an ambulance, screaming along with its sirens on and blue lights flashing? And have you wondered about the other people inside the ambulance? Meet Tom Reynolds, an Emergency Medical Technician who works for the London Ambulance Service in East London. He has kept a blog of his daily working life since 2003 and his award-winning
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"--
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,
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
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.
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.
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
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
All Things Bright and Beautiful
James Herriot · 384 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
Miracles and Mayhem in the ER: Unbelievable True Stories from an Emergency Room Doctor
Brent Rock Russell · 286 pages
What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir
Alice Eve Cohen · 194 pages
A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possibleAt age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Alice tells her fiance that shes never been happier. And then the stomach pains begin. In her unflinchingly hone
Yes Sister, No Sister: My Life as a Trainee Nurse in 1950s Yorkshire
Jennifer Craig · 251 pages
Based on the author's own experiences, this is the fascinating story of one young nurse who enters training in 1952 and eventually progresses to become ward sister.
Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring
Carolyn Jourdan · 168 pages
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
Matt McCarthy · 336 pages
"This funny, candid memoir about the author's intern year at a New York hospital provides a scorchingly frank look at how doctors are made, taking readers into the critical care unit to see one burgeoning physician's journey from ineptitude to competence. After his professional baseball career failed to launch, Matt McCarthy went to Harvard Medical School and on to a coveted residency slot in New
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty · 272 pages
The blogger behind the popular Web series Ask a Mortician describes her experiences working at a crematory, including how she sometimes got ashes on her clothes and how she cared for bodies of all shapes and sizes.
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
Mark Vonnegut · 203 pages
More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his remarkable story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling as a pediatrician, and learning that willpower isn't nearly enough. Here is the world after Mark was released from a mental hospital to find his family forever altered. Af
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
John Diamond · 240 pages
The witty but compelling story of one man's view of his cancer and its treatment which became an instant bestseller on its publication.Shortly before his 44th birthday, John Diamond received a call from the doctor who had removed a lump from his neck. Having been assured for the previous 2 years that this was a benign cyst, Diamond was told that it was, in fact, cancerous. Suddenly, this man who'd
Ice Bound: One Woman's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers · 362 pages
A physician stranded at the South Pole describes how she discovered a lump in her breast, treated herself with a biopsy and chemotherapy, and was rescued by the Air National Guard, and reflects on her experiences and her colleagues. The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes or boats and the only connection
In the Midst of Life
Jennifer Worth · 427 pages
Just as Jennifer was present at the beginning of life in her midwife books, here she documents her experiences as a nurse and ward sister treating patients who were nearing the end of their lives. Interpersed with these stories from Jennifer's post-midwife career are the histories of her patients, discussions on the circumstances in which we die, and a stripping-back of the myths and taboos surrou
Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
Michelle Williams · 262 pages
Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
Damien Brown · 345 pages
Damien Brown is a twenty-nine-year-old Australian doctor, inexperienced but motivated by a strong desire to help, when he arrives in Angola - an impoverished, war-torn country in south west Africa - for a six-month posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres. It's his first stint with the organisation, and he thinks he is ready.