A compelling blend of science, history and storytelling. Barbara Ravage has fashioned an enlightening, invaluable book.” -Stewart O'Nan, author of The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American TragedyThough each of us is just a spark away from being a burn victim, the public knows little and understands less about the world that patients inhabit. Pulling the curtains back on this private and sterile environment, Burn Unit is a riveting account of the frontline efforts-bot...

An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeonDr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those surgeons specially trained to perform heart transplants. Heart Matters is the story of the making of a surgeon who is also a wife and mother. In this powerful and moving memoir...

2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction“No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing....Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the MoonIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinchi...

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D."The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When...

Drawing from real medical journal cases, a doctor shares true stories about strange symptoms and perplexing patients.Those in the medical profession know that sometimes the cases that come into emergency rooms or doctor's offices can be highly unusual—and depending on how things go, the results can be either tragic or comic. This collection of stories reveals some of the oddest and most memorable case histories, from the woman who claims she was brushing her teeth ...

"Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating." —New York Times Book ReviewWith poignant insight and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man’s evolution from naïve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr. describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .2...

Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik draws on this rare combination to create a neurosurgeon’s Kitchen Confidential–a unique insider’s memoir of a fascinating profession.Neurosurgeons are renowned for their big egos an...

LURKING in our homes, hospitals, schools, and farms is a terrifying pathogen that is evolving faster than the medical community can track it or drug developers can create antibiotics to quell it. That pathogen is MRSA—methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus—and Superbug is the first book to tell the story of its shocking spread and the alarming danger it poses to us all.Doctors long thought that MRSA was confined to hospitals and clinics, infe...

CNACertified Nursing Assistant Exam CramLinda WhitentonMarty WalkerSucceed with topical reviews, practice exams, and preparation tools· Covers exactly what you need to know to score higher on your CNA exam· More than 150 sample test questions help you gain confidence and decide when you’re ready to take the actual exam· Simplifies key nursing assistant concepts and techniques for easy learning· Includes popular Cram Sheet tear...

When every hiccup sounds like the call of doom, each stomach pang hints at incipient cancer, and a headache means it's time to firm up your last will and testament, The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death. provides just the relief you need. Gene Weingarten has spent his whole life immersed in the eclectic details of bizarre symptoms, self-diagnosing every minor ache as a potentially deadly disease. Weingarten examines:The mind of a hypochondriac

In a medical emergency, time is of the essence. Doc's First Aid Guide is an ER Doc's illustrated, first-aid pocket handbook designed to be used as a quick reference. Kathleen A. Handal, M.D. is a nationally and internationally known emergency medicine 'Doc'. Author of "The American Red Cross First Aid and Safety Handbook", she believes physicians have a responsibility to teach and share medical common sense.Have an ER Doc at your side! Best to read before you need it! For each medic...

Live Your Life with COPD 52 Weeks of Health, Happiness and Hope is your guide to living well with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Theres a lot to learn when youve got COPD Live Your Life will show you what you need to know and help you put it into practice. Each week youll discover something new: Information on breathing techniques, medications, exercise, oxygen, nutrition and more…as well as thoughtful perspectives, joyful inspiration and endless empowerment. Whether you were diagno...