Biography & Autobiography, Medical
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A Knapsack Full of Dreams
Memoirs of a Street Nurse by Cathy Crowe
"My nurse hands once did more useful things. They immunized the fat, healthy thighs of infants, they carefully measured cardiac drugs to administer to young heart patients, they bathed both the elderly lady after her surgery and the 24-year-old ...
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Raising Hope
by Kim Parke
Raising Hope is a story of a mother’s unending love for her second child, named Hope, who was born with a rare genetic syndrome called Wolf-Hirschhorn, and came into this world to teach others about what unconditional love really means and how that ...
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Saving Lives
Possibly Yours Or Someone You Love by Stephen Marks and Denise Rogers
This book documents our encounter with cardiovascular disease. The disease can manifest in many forms. Unfortunately, some people get no warning since their first encounter is a fatal heart attack. Then there are those who experience the classic ...
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Misfits of Medicine
Physicians Who "First Do Harm" by William W. Colliflower, M.D. and Linda Colliflower
When we think of a misfit, we often who willfully engages in the kind of behavior or attitude that sets them apart from others in an uncomfortable way. There are times when misfit behavior can turn out good, such as when a member of a football team ...
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The Surgeon's Apprentice
by John Case
Second in a multivolume memoir, The Surgeon’s Apprentice follows a young John Case through his medical and then surgical training in an era when penicillin was a new wonder drug. John’s experience training at two universities and eight hospitals ...
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A Journey Through Medicine
Memoirs of a Female Immigrant by Gisele Microys
Gisele, born in prewar Silesia, then part of Germany, has to flee with her family to the West in January 1945 to escape the Russian invasion. She loves school, but following her father's premature death, is forced to complete an apprenticeship as a ...
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Journey on Parallel Roads
Autobiography and Memoir by Naiyer Habib and Mahlaqa Naushaba Habib
The Journey on Parallel Roads reflects the couple's journey on parallel roads of profession, community leadership, and broad family responsibility. They looked after all in exemplary manner giving priority to each that each deserved without any ...
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What My Wheelchair Taught Me
by Lisa Dianne Jones
Lisa Jones made a conscious choice to disregard what fate might have chosen for her, instead embracing and consistently using her free will to the maximum. What My Wheelchair Taught Me is about Lisa Jones, soulmate to others and how she has led her ...
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Life Goes On
Journey of a Liver Transplant Recipient by Christine Jowett
It is a reality that someone in Canada dies every three days waiting for an organ transplant; for some patients, they are lying in their hospital beds, waiting to be given a second chance at life. Some are fortunate to receive that organ or gift of ...
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The Girl Next Door Meets Cancer
by Hayleigh Noel O'Brien
“I hope that my experience can encourage other women to pay attention to their bodies and trust their instincts.” These are the brave words of the late Hayleigh Noel O’Brien, who, shortly before her 31st birthday, was diagnosed with a form of ...
