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  • Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster

    A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques

    Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster shows you how to use mind-body techniques to reduce anxiety, use 23-50% less pain medication and heal faster. Documented by research, it is recommended at leading hospitals across the US, including Brigham and Women’s Hospital which is a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital and NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.It includes chapters about using relaxation ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • DERMOVATE

    by Thomas Daniel ...
    This medication is used to treat a variety of skin conditions (e.g., eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis, allergies, rash). Clobetasol reduces the swelling, itching, and redness that can occur in these types of conditions. This medication is a very strong (super-high-potency) corticosteroid.Get your copy today by scrolling up and clicking Buy Now to get your copy today ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Checklist Manifesto

    How to Get Things Right

    by Atul Gawande ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklistWe live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ankle Arthroscopy

    Techniques Developed by the Amsterdam Foot and Ankle School

    Ankle injuries are often sport related and pose a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Over the past 25 years, Niek van Dijk, founder of the Amsterdam Foot and Ankle School and author of this book, has developed a new philosophy of ankle arthroscopy. It entails a comprehensive approach which includes various diagnostic strategies and the application of a number of minimally invasive endoscopic ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Complications in Surgery

    Complications in Surgery, Second Edition offers authoritative recommendations for preventing and managing complications in all current general surgery procedures. The opening sections discuss institutional risk management issues and risks common to all operations, such as wound healing problems, infection, shock, and complications in immunosuppressed patients. Subsequent sections focus on ... Read more

    $255.99 USD

  • Lateral Access Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

    This well-illustrated textbook is the first comprehensive and authoritative source of information on minimally invasive lateral access spine surgery. It covers all aspects of the subject, including patient selection, approach and monitoring techniques, soft tissue management, application in a variety of pathologies, technical nuances, and the prevention and management of complications. In addition ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

    A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence

    by Ian Harris ...
    For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, practising orthopaedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself, makes the unsettling ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complications

    A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

    by Atul Gawande ...
    A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Do No Harm

    Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

    by Henry Marsh ...
    A New York Times BestsellerShortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa Book AwardLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionA Finalist for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper PrizeA Finalist for the Wellcome Book PrizeA Financial Times Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearWhat is it like to be a brain surgeo... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Gifted Hands 20th Anniversary Edition

    The Ben Carson Story

    Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for the persistence of his mother, a single parent who worked three jobs and pushed her sons to do their best, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

    "Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating." —New York Times Book ReviewWith poignant insight and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man’s evolution from naïve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr. describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Confessions of a Surgeon

    The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors

    As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the successes, failures, remarkable advances, and camaraderie that make it exciting. He uncovers the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dr. Mutter's Marvels

    A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

    A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical odditiesImagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Blood On My Hands - A Surgeon At War

    An Australian surgeon's extraordinary story of courage and conflict. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    "Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying."—Wall Street JournalHailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a late-night against-the-clock "harvest run" to secure a precious transplantable organ, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • My Glory Was I Had Such Friends

    A Memoir

    In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant.Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first heart transplant, Amy Silverstein’s donor heart plummeted into failure. If she wanted to live, she had to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Another Day in the Frontal Lobe

    A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

    Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik draws on this rare combination to create a neurosurgeon’s Kitchen Confidential–a unique insider ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Letters to a Young Doctor

    A timeless collection of advice, operating-room wisdom, and reflections on the practice of medicine, from the “best of the writing surgeons” (Chicago Tribune).“Richard Selzer does for medicine what Jacques Cousteau does for the sea,” raved The New York Times of this extraordinary collection. “He transports the reader to a world that most of us never see, a world that is vivid and powerful, often ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Place to Hide

    A Brain Surgeon’s Long Journey Home from the Iraq War

    by W. Lee Warren ...
    Join Air Force veteran Dr. W. Lee Warren as he chronicles his fascinating, heartbreaking, and enlightening experience as a neurosurgeon in an Iraq War combat hospital.Warren's life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve the U.S. Air Force in Iraq in 2004. When he traded a comfortable, if demanding, practice in San Antonio, Texas, for a ride on a C ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • All That Moves Us

    A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

    by Jay Wellons ...
    **“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth“A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon.”—Henry Marsh, New York Times bestselling author of Do No Harm: ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 當呼吸化為空氣:一位天才神經外科醫師最後的生命洞察(揪心感動暢銷版)

    When Breath Becomes Air

    Translated by 唐勤 ...
    Series series 人生顧問
    人終將一死,但當死亡迫近時,我們才會開始學習如何好好活著。*蟬聯亞馬遜書店長銷榜的經典動人之作。*榮獲紐約時報暢銷書。*入選普立茲獎決選名單、比爾.蓋茲2017年推薦書單。「這本小書擁有非常多層次的意義及諸多的對比關係,比如生與死、病人與醫生、兒子與父親、工作與家庭、信仰與理智。在保羅短暫的一生中,他透過書籍、寫作、醫學、手術、科學等各種方式探尋生命的意義。我非常有幸能閱讀這本書,得以見證這段旅程的一小部分。」──比爾.蓋茲「患病後,棘手之處在於,你的價值觀不斷在變……你決定要把時間花在當神經外科醫師,可是兩個月後,你不那麼想了。再過兩個月,你也許想去學吹薩克斯風,或想全心服事教會。死亡是個單一事件,可是身罹絕症地活下去,卻是個歷程。」──保羅.卡拉尼提即將攀上充滿希望的人生巔峰,死亡的陰影卻突然橫亙身前,一位三十七歲的... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Surgeon in the Village

    An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa

    by Tony Bartelme ...
    A “lyrical, inspirational” story of doctors who changed the health care of an African nation (Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation)Dr. Dilan Ellegala arrives in Tanzania, shocked to find the entire country has just three brain surgeons for its population of forty-two million. Haydom Lutheran Hospital lacks even the most basic surgical tools, not even a saw to open a patient’s skull. Here, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Creative Destruction of Medicine

    How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

    How genomics, big data, and digital technology are revolutionizing every aspect of medicine, from physical exams to drug prescriptions to organ transplantsMobile technology has transformed our lives, and personal genomics is revolutionizing biology. But despite the availability of technologies that can provide wireless, personalized health care at lower cost, the medical community has resisted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Becoming Dr. Q

    My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon

    The inspiring story of a young Mexican immigrant who became a renowned neurosurgeon.Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a 19-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of Central California.In this gripping memoir, Alfredo Quiñones ... Read more

    $11.99 USD