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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTell 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
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.
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
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.
Miracles and Mayhem in the ER: Unbelievable True Stories from an Emergency Room Doctor
Brent Rock Russell · 286 pages
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,
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
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 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
Blood, 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
All Things Bright and Beautiful
James Herriot · 384 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
Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring
Carolyn Jourdan · 168 pages
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.
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.
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
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
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.