20 must-read memoir books like Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story by Leah Hazard

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Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

By: Leah Hazard

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

________________No sleep for twenty hours. No food for ten. And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers… …

If you liked the memoir plot in Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story by Leah Hazard , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

2. 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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3. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

Similar categories in Dawn French's The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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5. 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

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua D. Mezrich

6. 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

Similar categories in Joshua D. Mezrich's When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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7. 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

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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8. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

By: Christie Watson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably power… read more

Similar categories in Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

"It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

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10. The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

By: Katy Weitz

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Strongest supporter, best friend, expert, cheerleader and chief photographer . . . Before, during a… read more

Similar categories in Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

By: Leah Hazard

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

________________No sleep for twenty hours. No food for ten. And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers… … read more

Similar categories in Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • medical
  • health
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom With Modern Knowledge

By: Rachel Reed

4.56

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

It’s time for a childbirth revolution. The modern approach to maternity care fails women, families … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Reed's Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom With Modern Knowledge book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison. by Amanda     Brown

13. The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

By: Amanda Brown

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doct… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison. book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your Body. Your Baby. Your Choices.

By: Milli Hill

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 LiveSelected as one of the Independent’s 10 best pregnan… read more

Similar categories in Milli Hill's Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your Body. Your Baby. Your Choices. book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • health
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15. 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

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Other Edie Trimmer

By: Jacqueline Wilson

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new middle-grade novel from the bestselling Jacqueline Wilson!"I seemed to be seeing do… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's The Other Edie Trimmer book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery by Max Skittle

17. The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery

By: Max Skittle

3.54

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful first-hand account of working for the NHS, both before and during the COVID-19 epidemic.… read more

Similar categories in Max Skittle's The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP

By: Amir Khan

4.43

Format: 288 pages, ebook

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER60 hours a week240 patients 10 minutes to make a diagnosis Welcome to the su… read more

Similar categories in Amir Khan's The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

By: Lysa Walder

4.14

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding to death from a stab wound; a distraught mom watches, … read more

Similar categories in Lysa Walder's Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Najgorsza w tym wszystkim jest zwykła samotność. Możesz żyć samotnie w nieskazitelnie czystym otoczeniu, mając pod ręką wszystko, czego potrzebujesz. I nadal możesz być zupełnie odizolowany."

-Lysa Walder, Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

"Czasami ludzie są samotni i potrzebują jedynie kilkuminutowej rozmowy. Nie jesteśmy tu po to, by być doradcami czy mediatorami: naszym zadaniem jest pomoc w nagłych wypdakach. Ale czasami aby pomóc, …"

-Lysa Walder, Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

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20. Tajemnice pielęgniarek. Prawda i uprzedzenia

By: Marianna Fijewska

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Według stereotypu pielęgniarka to osoba idealna, łagodna, dobra, opiekuńcza, współczująca, która ma… read more

Similar categories in Marianna Fijewska's Tajemnice pielęgniarek. Prawda i uprzedzenia book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Courage to Care: A Call for Compassion

By: Christie Watson

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A vital and timely book about inspirational nurses, and the bravery of patients and families, from … read more

Similar categories in Christie Watson's The Courage to Care: A Call for Compassion book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death by Jake Jones

22. Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death

By: Jake Jones

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life as a paramedic. A young man has s… read more

Similar categories in Jake Jones's Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • science
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23. Polacy na emigracji

By: Agnieszka Kołodziejska

3.62

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Poznaj niesamowite historie naszych rodaków, którzy zdecydowali się żyć poza Polską. Jakie motywacj… read more

Similar categories in Agnieszka Kołodziejska's Polacy na emigracji book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ginekolodzy. Tajemnice gabinetów by Iza Komendołowicz

24. Ginekolodzy. Tajemnice gabinetów

By: Iza Komendołowicz

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Jakie dramaty rozgrywają się za zamkniętymi drzwiami gabinetów? Ginekolog przyjacielem kobiety c… read more

Similar categories in Iza Komendołowicz's Ginekolodzy. Tajemnice gabinetów book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Ginekolodzy 2. Kolejne tajemnice i jeszcze większy strach

By: Iza Komendołowicz

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Druga część bestsellerowego tomu rozmów – Ginekolodzy. Tajemnice gabinetów. Autorka rozmawia z pols… read more

Similar categories in Iza Komendołowicz's Ginekolodzy 2. Kolejne tajemnice i jeszcze większy strach book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • audiobook
Cover of A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis by Louise Curtis

26. A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis

By: Louise Curtis

3.97

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Moving, honest and inspiring – this is a nurse’s true story of life in a busy A&E department during… read more

Similar categories in Louise Curtis's A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe

By: Anna Kent

4.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'The heart-wrenching tale of one midwife's quest to help others -and make peace with herself ' LEAH… read more

Similar categories in Anna Kent's Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Rozwód po polsku by Iza Komendołowicz

28. Rozwód po polsku

By: Iza Komendołowicz

3.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

GŁÓWNĄ PRZYCZYNĄ ROZWODÓW JEST MAŁŻEŃSTWO Rozwody współczesnych Polaków na tle przemian społecznyc… read more

Similar categories in Iza Komendołowicz's Rozwód po polsku book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service by Dan Farnworth

29. 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

Similar categories in Dan Farnworth's 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Heathrow Doctor: The Highs And Lows Of Life As An Airport Doctor

By: Stephanie Green

3.95

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

For over a decade, Stephanie Green was a doctor on-call for one of the world's busiest airports, co… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Green's The Heathrow Doctor: The Highs And Lows Of Life As An Airport Doctor book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Polacy last minute. Sekrety pilotów wycieczek by Justyna Dżbik-Kluge

31. Polacy last minute. Sekrety pilotów wycieczek

By: Justyna Dżbik-Kluge

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Wakacje to czas zawieszony, w którym nie działają normalne zasady. Polak z dala od domu pozwala sob… read more

Similar categories in Justyna Dżbik-Kluge's Polacy last minute. Sekrety pilotów wycieczek book and Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

29 Best audiobook books like Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story by Leah Hazard

Transform Your Habits

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Adam Kay

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

Dawn French

3.87

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Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

Adam Kay

4.12

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Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

Adam Kay

3.91

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Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

Lucy Jones

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]

Philippa Perry

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

Emily Oster

4.14

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Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

Leah Hazard

4.16

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