On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the ...
Everything They Don't Tell You, Everything You Need to Know Becoming a doctor is so much more than acing your MCATs, living through med school, t...
An entirely new way to make the best medical decisions. Making the right medical decisions is harder than ever. We are overwhelmed by information...
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In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the sca...
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some wi...
A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central t...
Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital ...
Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popul...
The Survival Medicine Handbook(tm) is a guide for those who want to be medically prepared for any disaster where help is NOT on the way. This boo...
A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert Tracing one scientist’...
In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies Could Talk." With it, the doctor-turned-journalist esta...
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