Biography & Autobiography, Medical
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A Physician's Advocacy
Validating the Medical Treatment of Addiction by Nady el-Guebaly
This memoir details the life and career of Dr. Nady el-Guebaly, an early practitioner of addiction medicine and a pillar of healthcare in Canada. Nady el-Guebaly was born in Egypt in 1941 to the sound of Axis forces bombing the ships anchored in...
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Rebel With A Cause: The Doc Nikaido Story
by Bretton Loney
Rebel With A Cause: The Doc Nikaido Story is a compelling account of how Canada’s shameful treatment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II impacted one man: the rebellious Dr. Harry Nikaido. Turning his back on material things, Doc practised...
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Love Always
My Wife’s Courageous Battle Against Triple-Negative Breast Cancer by John Charles Corrigan
It started with a worrisome lump in Donna’s neck. It was May 2017. At the time, John and Donna Corrigan were looking forward to the publication of John’s debut non-fiction title about the Red Knight. John had spent twenty-four years doing...
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Microbial Mysteries
A Rocky Road by Lee F. Walters
In this compelling third part of their life story, Lee Walters, MD, and his wife, Cara, along with their triplet daughters, set out from Scottsdale, Arizona, to Pennsylvania, seeking a slower-paced life. It seems like they’ve found paradise, with...
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Born in a Camp
My Family's Story; My Story by Kenneth Taguchi
The photograph on the back cover is a picture of the barn in the internment camp Tashme, British Columbia, taken in 2019 during a family visit to Tashme by the author and family. This is where the author spent the first two years of his life....
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Hex the Patriarchy & Heal the Patriarchy
by Lilith Rising
In astrology, Pluto is the planet everyone fears: a herald of change, destabilization, and the destruction of everything you think you know. The Pluto Returns series follows Lilith as Pluto transforms the existing patriarchal systems within the...
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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,...
