Medical, History
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Not Science. Not Scientists
The Great Scientific Hijack
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When doctors, virologists, and health organizations make claims, we take them as scientific fact. But what if this is not the case? What if the medicine, as we know it today, is based on false principles? Not Science, Not Scientists exposes how...
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A Journey in Surgery
The Memoir of a Canadian Surgeon
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The pathway to a career isn’t always straightforward. Not everyone dreams of becoming a doctor, let alone a surgeon, since childhood. Author Dennis Pitt certainly didn’t. Like his grandfather and parents, Dennis had his sights set on a career in...
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Ripples from the Rupununi
Dr. Aidun's Healing Journey
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Somewhere over the rainforest in Guyana there’s a land called the Rupununi, a creek-crossed savannah inhabited for millennia by Indigenous people of great capacity. This is where Dr. Jamshid Aidun, a Persian Canadian surgeon and a humble man of...
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Hopelessness to Normalcy
The Remarkable History of Hemophilia Care in Canada
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Hopelessness to Normalcy takes readers on a compelling journey through the evolution of hemophilia care in Canada, providing a detailed and personal account of its many transformations—good, bad, and disastrous. Drawing on over fifty years of...
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Internal Medicine
A Second Casebook
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This book is a collection of stories, often suggested by a patient encounter. Patients are our best teachers. Each story aims to educate, entertain and inspire. You might be faced with issues like these: • Do patients understand enough about...
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How to Smuggle Children and Other Confessions of a Country Doctor
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An engaging and affectionate memoir, How to Smuggle Children and Other Confessions of a Country Doctor tells of three generations of Nova Scotian country doctors, whose combined practices span the twentieth century. With clear-eyed prose, Dr....
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Politics, Personalities, and Persistence
One Hundred Years of Psychiatric Nursing Education in Manitoba
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Politics, Personalities, and Persistence tells the story of the evolution of registered psychiatric nursing in the province of Manitoba. This comprehensive account traces the distinct profession’s transition from the asylums of Manitoba, where...
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The Unsung Heroes of Paediatric Medicine
The History of the Department of Pathology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (1888-2018)
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Within the world of medicine, the work the pathologist does is integral to positive patient outcomes, but it is rare for the pathologist to actually have any interaction with their patients. Thus, their work can often go unrecognized and...
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Medical Man
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Called out by a frightened country doctor in the dark night of a prairie winter in 1919 to assist with an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Robert Ross travels to an isolated farmhouse where he finds himself entangled in a tragedy. He is immediately...
