9 must-read autobiography books like Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown

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Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

By: Theresa Brown

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift comes a frank look at navigating the world …

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1. Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living

By: Susan Spencer-Wendel

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)--Lou Gehrig'… read more

Similar categories in Susan Spencer-Wendel's Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her to try to find her birth mother before I die, so that I might meet her and say, "Your broug…"

-Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living

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2. Everybody's Got Something

By: Robin Roberts , Veronica Chambers

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you ar… read more

Similar categories in Robin Roberts's Everybody's Got Something book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Against Medical Advice

By: James Patterson , Hal Friedman , Cory Friedman

3.98

Format: None pages,

This is the heart-rending drama of one family's courage, heartbreak, sacrifice, and triumph in conf… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Against Medical Advice book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. Polio: An American Story

By: David M. Oshinsky

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find … read more

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5. I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

By: Lee Gutkind

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

"I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out," a collection of true narratives, reflects the dynam… read more

Similar categories in Lee Gutkind's I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

6. Old Friends

By: Tracy Kidder

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Two old men in a little room. Together they represent some one hundred and sixty years of memory, o… read more

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7. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's A Living Remedy: A Memoir book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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8. Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege

By: Robert Meyer MD

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With this debut, emergency room doctor Meyer collaborates with journalist Koeppel to tell a persona… read more

Similar categories in Robert Meyer MD's Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

By: Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more

Similar categories in Farzon A. Nahvi's Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

By: Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more

Similar categories in Ricardo Nuila's The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Stephen M. Cohn's All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. E.R. Nurses

By: James Patterson

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

James Patterson and Matt Eversmann present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives … read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's E.R. Nurses book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • nursing
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My job isn't just taking care of patients. I take care of families too. It is the greatest gift."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

"Nursing, I realize, isn't just about medicine. It's also about making---and preserving--- that human connection."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

"I don't think people realize the fight that goes on in nurses' hearts--- sticking to a hospital's legal policy versus acting on humanitarian impulses."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

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13. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Ingrassia's A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

By: Thomas Fisher

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to stee… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

Similar categories in Anupam B. Jena's Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

By: Jay Wellons

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more

Similar categories in Jay Wellons's All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle Horton

17. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

By: Hadley Vlahos

4.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy… read more

Similar categories in Hadley Vlahos's The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. 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

Similar categories in Paul Seward's Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture of Compromise

By: Chris Hodges

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

We have real hope we’re called to share. But how we share it makes a difference.   Christians to… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hodges's The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture of Compromise book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • nonfiction
"You will never know all that your life can be until you hand it over to the One who gave you life."

-Chris Hodges, The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture of Compromise

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself. Humility is thinking of yourself less. We can be courageous and contrite at the same time."

-Chris Hodges, The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture of Compromise

"Pride is a gateway sin that offers an open doorway for our enemy to drop in and tell us just how great we are, and how we really don't need God."

-Chris Hodges, The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture of Compromise

"Remember, God isn't looking for perfection. He's looking for humility and honesty about our need for Him--our brokenness. The Bible tells us God is especially attracted to a repentant heart. "My sacr…"

-Chris Hodges, The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture of Compromise

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22. Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

By: Suzanne Koven

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in … read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Koven's Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Who will I be when I have fewer patients? When I have no patients at all? It's often noted that "practice" as it relates to medicine has two meanings: the act of caring for patients and the doctor's …"

-Suzanne Koven, Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

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23. Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

By: Wes Ely

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Winner of a Christopher Award “Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books … read more

Similar categories in Wes Ely's Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • nursing
  • audiobook
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24. 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

Similar categories in Aoife Abbey's Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Why: A Memoir of Love and Lymphoma by John Melithoniotes

25. Why: A Memoir of Love and Lymphoma

By: John Melithoniotes

4.31

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

There is no test of a couple’s bonds like the revelation that one of them has a life-threatening di… read more

Similar categories in John Melithoniotes's Why: A Memoir of Love and Lymphoma book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
Cover of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown

26. Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

By: Theresa Brown

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift comes a frank look at navigating the world … read more

Similar categories in Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nursing
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging by Cynthia Thurlow

27. Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging

By: Cynthia Thurlow

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Discover the customized nutrition plan that will help you be lean, fit, more youthful, sexier, and … read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Thurlow's Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Can't Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination by Nancy Colier

28. Can't Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination

By: Nancy Colier

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Read this book and experience the freedom to create your reality.” —Deepak Chopra, MD, author of T… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Colier's Can't Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains by Steph Jagger

29. Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains

By: Steph Jagger

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Between Two Kingdoms meets Wild . In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in Steph Jagger's Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope by Cornelia Griggs

30. The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope

By: Cornelia Griggs

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic, unforgettable, and ultimately cathartic diary of a young pediatric surgeon and mother… read more

Similar categories in Cornelia Griggs's The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

By: Sarafina El-Badry Nance

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicis… read more

Similar categories in Sarafina El-Badry Nance's Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark book and Theresa Brown's Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

9 Top adult books like Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown

Transform Your Habits

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Transform Your Habits

E.R. Nurses

James Patterson

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

Anupam B. Jena

3.68

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9 Top audiobook books like Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room by Paul Seward

Transform Your Habits

Under the Lake

Stuart Woods

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

Elizabeth Berg

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

Cory Franklin

3.57

Transform Your Habits

All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

Stephen M. Cohn

4.09

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