The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
By: Stephen Westaby
4.30
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the p…
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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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- biography
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
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- nonfiction
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3. 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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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. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
By: Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In oth… read more
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7. 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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- biography
- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. 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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- audiobook
- history
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"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
9. 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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- biography
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"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
10. Me vs Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life
By: Hayley Morris
3.97
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Brain: We left the oven on! Me: No don't say that, I've not got time for this! Brain: The house i… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
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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- biography
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- science
"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. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry
By: Ben Cave
4.26
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
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- nonfiction
- science
13. 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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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"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
14. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
15. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
By: Henry Marsh
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unf… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
16. 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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- biography
- memoir
- health
- medical
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- nonfiction
- science
"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
17. 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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- nonfiction
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18. Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
By: Arnold van de Laar
4.15
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
In Under the Knife, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the wi… read more
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- health
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- nonfiction
- science
19. The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
By: Stephen Westaby
4.30
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the p… read more
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- history
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
20. Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors
By: Caroline Elton
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A psychologist's stories of doctors who seek to help others but struggle to help themselves. Fro… read more
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