True Medical Stories Books
by Richard Preston
Amazon Price: $10.20
Customer Review: it is a very good book. the sevices at amazon was very good and helpful and the prices on the book at amazon.com are very readable prices.
by Gregory, Julie
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Customer Review: A heartbreaking, but provocative memoir, "Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood," by Julie Gregory brings to life a little known disease, Munchausen's-By-Proxy (MBP). With chilling details, Julie outlines the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother and her struggle to become her own person.
A consummate actress, Sandy, Julie's mother, reads through countless medical encyclopedias as she invents symptoms and conditions for her daughter. Instructing her to "act sick" for the doctor, ignoring broken limbs and subjecting her to needless procedures is only a few of the horrors Julie encountered. Denied help time and time again by a multitude of doctors, counselors ...
by Jeff Guidry
Amazon Price: $14.95
Customer Review: What a great story! I generally love true stories and this one lived up to all my expectations. I really loved learning/reading about the authors interaction with Freedom. What a fantastic feel good story. I know there was some health issues that were discussed but overall it was not a depressing story at all. I highly recommend to anyone - this is a good one to keep on the bookshelf!
by Vivien Spitz
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Customer Review: Most people are aware that one of the fundamental moral principles for all doctors is to "do no harm," a principle which can be traced back to Hippocrates and the very beginnings of the Western medical tradition. Unfortunately, not all doctors heed this precept: the worst and most extreme examples can be found in the history of Nazi Germany, where not only doctors, but the entire medical profession, appears to have become a twisted mirror image of what it should have been.
by Robert D. Lesslie
Amazon Price: $9.35
Customer Review: I have been in the medical field for many years, mostly in the emergency rooms. I really enjoyed this book and the heart felt stories. Wonderful book for anyone to read to understand more about the work the ER docs and nurses do every day.
by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner
Amazon Price: $13.57
Customer Review: Harvey Pekar is probably most well known for his work on American Splendor, a movie of which was made starring Paul Giamatti. But this tender story, which tells the painful and touching tale of his discovery that he has lymphoma and must begin chemotherapy. The news comes as Pekar and his wife, Brabner, are preparing to buy a house. As always with Pekar's work, Our Cancer Year is most remarkable for its utter normalcy. Pekar is an everyman through and through. As such, when he battles his disease, he does it in a comically human way. The title of this work is apt, too, because Pekar and his wife experience everything together in this fight against cancer. Pekar's strengths as a storyteller s...
by Frank Vertosick Jr.
Amazon Price: $10.85
Customer Review: My adult son had surgery for a subdural hematoma 3 years ago, so I wanted to know more about brain surgery. I read fiction mostly, but my venture into nonfiction was so rewarding because of this doctor's insightful recollection of his training and experiences. I will read all of his books because this was a fascinating look at the scariest of all surgeries. It reads almost like a novel, and I could not put it down.
by Herman Parish
Amazon Price: $3.99
Customer Review: My daughter loves Amelia Bededelia stories, and she is quite excited to be able to read this one on her own.
by Blake E. S. Taylor
Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Review: As a female with ADHD, I have focused my research on gender differences in the disorder. I liked Blake's practical suggestions. Actually reading about someone going through it, I realized that some of the little things I didn't like about myself were actually symptoms that you don't usually read about in general descriptions of ADHD. I didn't realize I had tics until he described his and I did some more research on it, and discovered that some of the embarrassing things I do aren't really my fault. Even though I wasn't even diagnosed until I was 24 (I'm now 26), I find so much more confidence in myself knowing that some of the problems I faced throughout high school and college weren't just ...
by Kevin Pezzi
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Customer Review: The book starts out great. It has interesting stories and is interesting reading, HOWEVER, I did not expect or appreciate the advertisements throughout the book for the author's dating service, penis enlargement program, plans for building a shed, and many, many, many more. I might understand it from a free book, but not one that I paid for. I really think the main purpose was not to sell a book, but rather to sell an avenue to advertisements for the plethora of his other products and schemes.
It does have interesting ER stories.
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