Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life
By: Matt Morgan
4.07
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Critical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensiv…
Want to Read"I place my stethoscope onto their chest to listen for the lub-dub sound of the heart valves. Then I wait. I wait a long, silent, slow five minutes. I listen for silence and feel for the presence of absence. No sound is heard and no pulse is felt."-Matt Morgan, Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life
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1. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
By: Henry Marsh
3.69
Format: 192 pages,
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cu… read more
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3. Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
By: Stephen Westaby
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons and some of the most remar… read more
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4. Your Life in My Hands
By: Rachel Clarke
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, hel… read more
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5. Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
By: Henry Marsh
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in… read more
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6. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
By: Adam Kay
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more
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7. When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
By: Joshua D. Mezrich
4.23
Format: 384 pages, ebook
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs fro… read more
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"Po powrocie do Oxfordu Medawar skupił się całkowicie na sprawdzeniu hipotezy, że odrzucanie przeszczepu allogenicznego jest zjawiskiem immunologicznym."-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
"The sick suffer alone, they undergo procedures and surgeries alone, and in the end, they die alone. Transplant is different. Transplant is all about having someone else join you in your illness. It m…"-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
8. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
By: Richard Shepherd
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more
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"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
9. Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist
By: Ed Patrick
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford'It's funny, touching a… read more
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10. In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist
By: Sohom Das
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that h… read more
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11. War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
By: David Nott
4.54
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous co… read more
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"As the Koran says in Surah 5:32: whoever saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind."-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
"The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride."-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
"I remember the three of us – Mum, Dad and me – all being in tears as we looked at my grades and considered the consequences. I went out into the garden and tried to make sense of it all. Yes, I could…"-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
12. Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life
By: Matt Morgan
4.07
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Critical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensiv… read more
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"I place my stethoscope onto their chest to listen for the lub-dub sound of the heart valves. Then I wait. I wait a long, silent, slow five minutes. I listen for silence and feel for the presence of a…"-Matt Morgan, Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life
13. The Seven Ages of Death
By: Richard Shepherd
4.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more
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14. The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare
By: Ben Bravery
4.30
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a… read more
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15. Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic
By: Rachel Clarke
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf … read more
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16. Scrubbed
By: Nikki Stamp
3.98
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki S… read more
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17. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life
By: Kate Marshall
3.94
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more
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18. Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
By: Aoife Abbey
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we expect to encounter over ou… read more
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"When relatives and friends grieve for their loved ones, they grieve for that patient: who they were and what they meant to their lives. When doctors find themselves unexpectedly ambushed by grief ove…"-Aoife Abbey, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
"I don't believe the sickest people that I meet throughout my day at work are in the business of having outlandish desires, either. I don't think they are staring at the square-tiled ceiling of the in…"-Aoife Abbey, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
19. The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies
By: Amanda Brown
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown Revisit the wold of The Prison Doctor… read more
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20. Everything that Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon
By: Jay Jayamohan
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Jay Jayamohan makes life and death decisions on a daily basis. That’s because he’s a Consultant Pae… read more
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21. 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service
By: Dan Farnworth
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Dan Farnworth brings vividly to life his astonishing experiences as a medic working on the frontlin… read more
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