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What You Don't Know Can Kill You

A Physician's Radical Guide to Conquering the Obstacles to Excellent Medical Care

by Laura Nathanson ...

A doctor shares life-saving strategies for navigating your way through health care crises.In 2003, Dr. Laura Nathanson was widowed after the misdiagnosis of her beloved husband. After this tragedy, she was determined to help others protect themselves and their loved ones from similarly preventable health care disasters—and help them benefit from health care miracles.In What You Don't Know Can Kill ... Read more

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A doctor shares life-saving strategies for navigating your way through health care crises.In 2003, Dr. Laura Nathanson was widowed after the misdiagnosis of her beloved husband. After this tragedy, she was determined to help others protect themselves and their loved ones from similarly preventable health care disasters—and help them benefit from health care miracles.In What You Don't Know Can Kill
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The Tennis Partner

A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss

by Abraham Verghese ...

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston GlobeIn this pow... ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston GlobeIn this pow...
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DSM-5 Handbook Of Differential Diagnosis (Speedy Study Guides)

by Speedy Publishing ...

Defining mental disorders is easy but to actually diagnose a patient needs a lot of hard work and proper information. You need to be able to classify the symptoms in order to narrow down to the right diagnosis. A wrong diagnosis could lead to more serious problems later on. This quick DSM-5 study guide helps you begin with the right treatment for the right patient. ... Read more

$4.49 CAD

Defining mental disorders is easy but to actually diagnose a patient needs a lot of hard work and proper information. You need to be able to classify the symptoms in order to narrow down to the right diagnosis. A wrong diagnosis could lead to more serious problems later on. This quick DSM-5 study guide helps you begin with the right treatment for the right patient.
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Shaken Brain

The Science, Care, and Treatment of Concussion

by Elizabeth Sandel, MD ...

A physician with thirty-five years of experience treating people with brain injuries shares the latest research on concussions and best practices for care.The explosion of attention to sports concussions has many of us thinking about the addled brains of our football and hockey heroes. But concussions happen to everyone, not just elite athletes. Children fall from high chairs, drivers and cyclists ... Read more

$29.51 CAD

A physician with thirty-five years of experience treating people with brain injuries shares the latest research on concussions and best practices for care.The explosion of attention to sports concussions has many of us thinking about the addled brains of our football and hockey heroes. But concussions happen to everyone, not just elite athletes. Children fall from high chairs, drivers and cyclists
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How Doctors Think

by Jerome Groopman ...

"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." —Time magazineFrom Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." —Time magazineFrom Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical
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The Laws of Medicine

Field Notes from an Uncertain Science

by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...

Series series TED Books
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a
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Une larme m’a sauvée

by Angèle Lieby, Hervé Chalendar ...

En juillet 2009, terrassée par une migraine, Angèle Lieby se rend à l’urgence d’un hôpital de Strasbourg. Son état s’aggrave. On doit la plonger dans un coma artificiel. Quatre jours plus tard, les médecins n’arrivent pas à la réveiller. Malgré toutes les stimulations, elle ne montre aucun signe de vie. « Il faut la débrancher », annonce-t-on bientôt à son mari. Pourtant, le jour anniversaire du ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

En juillet 2009, terrassée par une migraine, Angèle Lieby se rend à l’urgence d’un hôpital de Strasbourg. Son état s’aggrave. On doit la plonger dans un coma artificiel. Quatre jours plus tard, les médecins n’arrivent pas à la réveiller. Malgré toutes les stimulations, elle ne montre aucun signe de vie. « Il faut la débrancher », annonce-t-on bientôt à son mari. Pourtant, le jour anniversaire du
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Medical Response to Adult Sexual Assault 2e

by Linda E. Ledray, RN, PhD, SANE-A, FAAN, Ann Wolbert Burgess, DNSc, APRN, FAAN ...

Estimated 510 pages, 257 images, 40 contributorsMedical Response to Adult Sexual Assault, Second Edition provides evidence-based research on diagnosis, treatment, and examination in cases of sexual violence and assault. Survivors of sexual assault face any number of unique challenges both on the path to physical and psychological recovery and in navigating the investigative and judicial processes ... Read more

$84.14 CAD

Estimated 510 pages, 257 images, 40 contributorsMedical Response to Adult Sexual Assault, Second Edition provides evidence-based research on diagnosis, treatment, and examination in cases of sexual violence and assault. Survivors of sexual assault face any number of unique challenges both on the path to physical and psychological recovery and in navigating the investigative and judicial processes
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All in My Head

A memoir of life, love and patient power

by Jessica Morris ...

'This utterly uplifting book is a remarkable insight into a disease and one woman's battle to beat it' Jon Snow'A book of love and life, of courage and hope, of loss and togetherness' Philippe SandsAll In My Head is a memoir by a woman who in her early fifties received a life-shattering diagnosis. It is about her determined search for effective treatment, the birth of a campaign to get proper data ... Read more

$4.99 CAD

'This utterly uplifting book is a remarkable insight into a disease and one woman's battle to beat it' Jon Snow'A book of love and life, of courage and hope, of loss and togetherness' Philippe SandsAll In My Head is a memoir by a woman who in her early fifties received a life-shattering diagnosis. It is about her determined search for effective treatment, the birth of a campaign to get proper data
... Read more
Falling Into the Fire

A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

by Christine Montross ...

Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. We meet a young woman who habitually commits self-injury, ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. We meet a young woman who habitually commits self-injury,
... Read more
Symptom to Diagnosis An Evidence Based Guide, Fourth Edition

by Scott D.C. Stern, Adam S. Cifu, Diane Altkorn ...

"This book is a tremendous asset for students and residents learning to develop their diagnostic skills. It can also be useful as a refresher for established clinicians when the more common diagnoses are not the cause of a patient's complaints."—Doody's ReviewAn engaging case-based approach to learning the diagnostic process in internal medicineDoody's Core Titles for 2023!Symptom to Diagnosis, ... Read more

$79.91 CAD

"This book is a tremendous asset for students and residents learning to develop their diagnostic skills. It can also be useful as a refresher for established clinicians when the more common diagnoses are not the cause of a patient's complaints."—Doody's ReviewAn engaging case-based approach to learning the diagnostic process in internal medicineDoody's Core Titles for 2023!Symptom to Diagnosis,
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Confessions of a GP

by Benjamin Daniels ...

Series series The Confessions Series
Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to
... Read more
All in Her Head

The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

by Elizabeth Comen ...

Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardUSA Today Bestseller“All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about women’s bodies with all the narrative propulsion of a medical thriller, Comen has written a must-read, compelling, and important book.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Em... ... Read more

$19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardUSA Today Bestseller“All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about women’s bodies with all the narrative propulsion of a medical thriller, Comen has written a must-read, compelling, and important book.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Em...
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The Cancer Code

A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery

by Dr. Jason Fung ...

Series Book 3 - The Wellness Code
Author of the international bestsellers The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung returns with an eye-opening biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer—and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward.Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the ... Read more

$16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Author of the international bestsellers The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung returns with an eye-opening biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer—and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward.Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the
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Every Patient Tells a Story

Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

by Lisa Sanders ...

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 ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

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
... Read more
Diagnosis

Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

by Lisa Sanders ...

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalAs a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalAs a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an
... Read more
ADHD Does not Exist

The Truth About Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

by Richard Saul ...

In this groundbreaking and controversial book, behavioral neurologist Dr. Richard Saul draws on five decades of experience treating thousands of patients labeled with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder—one of the fastest growing and widely diagnosed conditions today—to argue that ADHD is actually a cluster of symptoms stemming from over 20 other conditions and disorders.According to ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

In this groundbreaking and controversial book, behavioral neurologist Dr. Richard Saul draws on five decades of experience treating thousands of patients labeled with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder—one of the fastest growing and widely diagnosed conditions today—to argue that ADHD is actually a cluster of symptoms stemming from over 20 other conditions and disorders.According to
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Release Your Pain: 2nd Edition - EBOOK: Resolving Soft Tissue Injuries with Exercise and Active Release Techniques

Resolving Soft Tissue Injuries with Exercise and Active Release Techniques

by Dr. Brian James Abelson DC., Kamali Thara Abelson BSc. ...

Series Book 1 - Release Your Body
Imagine finding a way to spend less time suffering from pain, and more time doing the things you love. Take control of your pain! This long awaited, completely reworked, second edition provides new content for each condition, with over 80 additional pages of information, the addition of new and easier to understand illustrations, updated descriptions about each of the soft-tissue conditions, a ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

Imagine finding a way to spend less time suffering from pain, and more time doing the things you love. Take control of your pain! This long awaited, completely reworked, second edition provides new content for each condition, with over 80 additional pages of information, the addition of new and easier to understand illustrations, updated descriptions about each of the soft-tissue conditions, a
... Read more
The Seven Ages of Death

‘Every chapter is like a detective story’ Telegraph

by Dr Richard Shepherd ...

The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply insightful. Unflinching' THE TIMES'A finely-crafted detective story' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Enlightening, strangely uplifting' DAILY MAIL'... ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply insightful. Unflinching' THE TIMES'A finely-crafted detective story' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Enlightening, strangely uplifting' DAILY MAIL'...
... Read more
Confessions of a British Doctor

by Benjamin Daniels ...

Series series The Confessions Series
THE UK’S BESTSELLING EBOOK OF 2011.Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

THE UK’S BESTSELLING EBOOK OF 2011.Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A
... Read more
Exercises for the Jaw to Shoulder - Release Your Kinetic Chain: Release Your Kinetic Chain

Release Your Kinetic Chain

by Dr. Brian James Abelson DC., Kamali Thara Abelson BSc. ...

Series Book 1 - Release Your Kinetic Chain
Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Jaw to Shoulder - EBOOKThis book can help you to rapidly rehabilitate, heal, and restore the tissues of your head, jaw, neck, shoulders and core with its intelligently designed, easy-to-follow exercise routines! It is an ideal tool if you suffer from headaches, jaw pain, neck pain, or shoulder pain.Written for the general public, by the ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Jaw to Shoulder - EBOOKThis book can help you to rapidly rehabilitate, heal, and restore the tissues of your head, jaw, neck, shoulders and core with its intelligently designed, easy-to-follow exercise routines! It is an ideal tool if you suffer from headaches, jaw pain, neck pain, or shoulder pain.Written for the general public, by the
... Read more
Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand - Release Your Kinetic Chain: Release Your Kinetic Chain

Release Your Kinetic Chain

by Dr. Brian James Abelson DC., Kamali Thara Abelson BSc. ...

Series Book 2 - Release Your Kinetic Chain
Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand - EBOOKAll the tissues, muscles, and bones of your body are connected to each other within a complex web of fascia…and together, make up your kinetic chain. ‘Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand’ provides intelligently designed, easy-to-follow exercise routines to aid you in rapidly rehabilitating, ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand - EBOOKAll the tissues, muscles, and bones of your body are connected to each other within a complex web of fascia…and together, make up your kinetic chain. ‘Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand’ provides intelligently designed, easy-to-follow exercise routines to aid you in rapidly rehabilitating,
... Read more
Concise Colour Medical Dictionary

Edited by Jonathan Law, Elizabeth Martin ...

Series series Oxford Quick Reference
Written by a team of medical experts, this market-leading dictionary offers clear and authoritative definitions for all aspects of medical science. It features up-to-date coverage on public health medicine, medical research and general practice, and cardiology, radiology, and dentistry among other specialist areas. This new edition has been revised and updated to reflect advancements in medical ... Read more

$10.79 CAD

Written by a team of medical experts, this market-leading dictionary offers clear and authoritative definitions for all aspects of medical science. It features up-to-date coverage on public health medicine, medical research and general practice, and cardiology, radiology, and dentistry among other specialist areas. This new edition has been revised and updated to reflect advancements in medical
... Read more
The Quick and the Dead

True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist

by Cynric Temple-Camp ...

True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologistFrom the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end.A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders ... In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist Dr Cynric ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologistFrom the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end.A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders ... In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist Dr Cynric
... Read more

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