Hard Roll: A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans
By: Jon McCarthy
4.21
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
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By: Michael J. Collins
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
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4. Cruel Deception
By: Gregg Olsen
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what a… read more
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6. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
By: Cory Franklin
3.57
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more
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7. A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
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8. Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
By: Michael J. Collins
4.28
Format: 320 pages,
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9. Everything She Ever Wanted
By: Ann Rule
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
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10. Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic
By: Kevin Grange
3.67
Format: 220 pages,
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11. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
By: Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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12. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
By: Farzon A. Nahvi
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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13. Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon
By: Anthony Youn
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be a doctor? “I am a doctor.” Every year, thousands of medical school gradua… read more
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14. All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit
By: Stephen M. Cohn
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A gripping portrait of trauma surgeons and their place in the controlled chaos of a trauma center, … read more
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15. The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain
By: Ian Mortimer
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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16. The River Man
By: R.B. Croft
3.19
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Clem knows every inch of Watersmeet like the back of his hand. After all, he’s controlled crime her… read more
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17. Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt
By: Todd Harra
3.73
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom f… read more
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18. Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room
By: Paul Seward
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A boy is pulled from a river and brought back to life: Will he be the same child he was? A priest o… read more
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19. Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Peter Canning
4.22
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
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20. The Removalist: On the Front Line of Death Care (Silent Siren #2)
By: Matthew Franklin Sias
4.27
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
“To be able to thrive in a field most are terrified of is a source of pride…To be in the presence o… read more
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21. Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton
By: Kevin Grange
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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22. Hard Roll: A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans
By: Jon McCarthy
4.21
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
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23. People of the ER
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4.29
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
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24. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist
By: Lisa G. Bailey
3.75
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more
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25. The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
By: Stephen Westaby
4.30
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
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26. Rescue 911: Tales from a First Responder
By: Michael Morse
3.51
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
First responders often don’t tell stories, preferring to keep what happens at work private. Rescue … read more
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27. Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician (Silent Siren #1)
By: Matthew Franklin Sias
3.92
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
Paramedics save lives. Morticians bury their mistakes. A twenty-three-year veteran of emergency me… read more
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28. A Double Dose of Dilaudid (Real Stories from a Small-Town ER Book 1)
By: Kerry Hamm
3.92
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to a small-town Emergency Room in rural Ohio. While it's true our ER doesn't see the stabbi… read more
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29. Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
By: Emma Goldberg
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening bo… read more
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30. The Ministry of Bodies
By: Seamus O'Mahony
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In The Ministry of Bodies, Seamus O'Mahony charts the realities of life in a modern hospital over t… read more
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