Biography & Autobiography, Medical
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Feel Again
by Nicole Clark
Young, freshly married, and pregnant with her first child, Nicole Clark is met with devastating news: she has cancer, stage 2B. Suddenly, amid the hope she feels for this new life, she finds herself face to face with death. This leads her to...
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Delegate and Disappear
Invisible Wounds and Mefloquine-Messed Minds by Bruce Given
Overlapping with and compounding the impacts of post-traumatic stress disorder, mefloquine toxicity is a condition caused by anti-malarial drugs once routinely used in the Canadian Armed Forces—issued and ordered to be taken by tens of thousands...
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The Soul-Sucking, Energy-Draining Life of a Physician
How to Live a Life of Service Without Losing Yourself by Dr. Tomi Mitchell
There’s something noble about choosing a career as a physician. Heroic, some even say. And even though the Covid-19 pandemic has opened the world’s eyes to the day-to-day rigors of the job, Dr. Tomi Mitchell doesn’t mince words when describing...
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Strength From Within
Surviving Cancer: The Power of Gifts and Hope by Kim Nelson
On September 5th, 2018, Kim Nelson received a diagnosis that would change her life forever. In this candid memoir, she tells of her emotional, physical, and spiritual journey through breast cancer—from the moment of diagnosis, through surgery,...
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Where Science Meets Spirit
The Autobiography of a Paralyzed Yogi by Mary-Jo Fetterly
Zebra fish can repair paralyzed limbs. Many other species can regenerate limbs and specialized tissue. Are humans missing something? Why are some people healers, despite the odds, while others are not? By the time you are close to death, there is...
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Driving Home
Cancer, Concussion, Mom and Me by Steffany Moonaz
Driving Home is a memoir focused on a single year of the author’s life in which she and her 9-year-old daughter moved in with her dying mother, she suffered a traumatic brain injury resulting from being hit by a semi-truck, and she dealt with the...
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Que Sera
A Memoir of Survival from a Congenital Heart Defect by Barry T Cull
“The future’s not ours to see Que sera, sera.” BARRY CULL wasn’t supposed to survive to his fifth birthday. He was born with a hole in his heart at a time when that was a death sentence; however, times were changing, and an experimental surgery...
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Too Far from the Path
My Journey Through Madness by Tamara Severson
A fresh and truthful story about the inner workings of schizophrenia. In this memoir Tamara goes deep into the world of madness and shares the experience of prolonged psychosis. Coupled with the artwork that she created, this story is a great...
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Skull Fragments
Expressions of My TBI LIfe by Len Roach
It’s estimated that one in three people have suffered an acquired brain injury in their lifetime. Yet so little is understood about brain health and its various injuries, especially the daily and personal effects. Author Len Roach knows these...
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Mindful of You
A Mother's Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope by Nancy Morgan Mumford
After growing up a happy and carefree child, Paul Mumford found himself totally unprepared for what began happening to him at age twenty-three. This is the compelling, true story of his unpredictable downward spiral into bipolar disorder and...