Medical Biography

In Life After Medical School, Dr. Bill Truels presents a compilation of both humorous and serious short stories and poems depicting his 50 years of experience as a practicing physician. Written initially for medical students and health care workers, these accounts have become popular with the general public, and anyone with a career that threatens to overtake their family life.

John's medical memoir was born from chaotic, disjointed, funny and frightening late-night letters to friends over email (any recipients of which all those years ago will likely walk away now). Those manic blogs from the hospital wards during under-slept call nights (which left a few friends wondering if he had invaded the hospital pharmacy) were the genesis for this book, Playing Doctor.

JFK's Secret Doctor tells a thrilling story of adventure and a historic medical career. Set against the grand panorama of 20th century world events, it captures the remarkable life and spirit of climber and medical visionary Hans Kraus (1905–1996). Kraus was taught English by writer James Joyce, escaped Nazi-dominated Europe, and was JFK's secret back specialist.

I think everyone can relate to the physical evolution from childhood to adolescence, which Dr. Stallworth describes with humor and self-reflection. By the end of this audiobook, the listener has a measure of the distance traveled over the years. He shares the good, the bad, and the ugly. You can learn from it, and once you begin listening, it is hard to stop. This is Dr. Stallworth’s first book since retiring in 2017, after 45 years of medical practice as an anesthesiologist in Los Angeles. He has pursued his passion for writing since 2017.

Stronger Than Before is a powerful memoir of survival and transformation by a public speaker and author who faced unimaginable medical crises. After a two-year struggle for a diagnosis, they were hit with two Stage 4 cancer diagnoses, chronic pain, liver failure, and included two deaths along with multiple near-death experiences.

A political journalist and activist, Cousins was also a professor of medical humanities at UCLA, where he studied the biochemistry of human emotions and their relationship to healing. When Cousins was hospitalized with a debilitating collagen illness, he decided to take his health into his own hands. Cousins and his doctor combated the disease together by creating a regimen of laughter and vitamin C specifically calibrated to his needs. Against all odds, the treatment worked, proving to Cousins that a positive attitude was key to his improvement.

Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in United States history, from the government's 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the 2014 death of Michael Brown, whose case sparked the initial Ferguson protests that grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. The playbook hasn't changed since 1979, when Dr. Baden was demoted from his job as New York City's Chief Medical Examiner after ruling that the death of a Black man in police custody was a homicide.

William’s memoir, The Parts of Him I Kept, is an intimate account of a daughter’s coming of age in the face of her father’s schizophrenic unraveling. Williams investigates the limits of our medical and cultural understanding of schizophrenia while chronicling the shared burden and benefits of caring for a mentally ill family member.

When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849, there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble's remark - "What, trust a woman doctor - never!"

In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912-1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next 34 months working in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, in close proximity to the front lines and often under air or artillery bombardment. He was uncomfortable, struck by the sorrows of war, and homesick for his wife.

In Confessions of a Surgeon: A Deeper Cut, Dr. Ruggieri blows the operating room doors right off their hinges. It cuts deeper into a profession, even more mysterious then ever before. He candidly shares his thoughts on the patients that have impacted his life the most.

El Dr. César Velasco Téllez es un exitoso Psiquiatra, Terapeuta Sexual y de Pareja mexicano, con más de 30 años de experiencia en la atención de pacientes con trastornos de salud mental, disfunciones sexual y problemas de pareja.

Born in Italy during World War II, Salvatore Forcina was a young boy who survived all odds by living through his young childhood without any real or proper shelter. Like many Italians during this time, a month after turning eight years old, his parents followed this migration to Argentina, a developing country at the time rich with natural resources and hope for a more stable life.

The book is a compilation of short personal medical stories compiled from my 45 years in the practice of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology. Each short story is based on actual events and meant to entertain as well as provide some insight into a career in ER Medicine and the practice of Anesthesia. The style of writing is meant for people with a non medical as well as a medical background. The stories vary from 'you can't make this up' humorous side of practicing medicine to very serious medical care scenarios.

This edition of the Great Mind series Françoise Dolto and Child Psychoanalysis has been revised, updated, and reformatted. It is about one of the greatest psychoanalysts the world has known. The author interviewed Françoise Dolto in 1986, after having visited La Maison Verte in Paris, a center Dr. Dolto had created for parents and children that mainly served to prepare children for greater lapses of time away from their parents and the early kindergarten experience.

Alexandre Mensier, chirurgien viscéral et digestif, vous embarque avec lui dans ses aventures pleines d'adrénaline et de suspens, comme si vous y étiez. 15 histoires d'opérations au détour desquelles il partage sa vie de chirurgien, ses pensées et ses émotions ; 15 histoires puissantes, insolites ou universelles, qui peuvent nous arriver à tous, où il dévoile l'envers du décor de ce lieu secret, où se jouent la vie, la mort et les moments de bascule de l'existence. Un récit en totale immersion, pour mieux comprendre les opérations chirurgicales, le corps et les pathologies.

Gary Young lebte ein außergewöhnliches Leben, das ihn nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag den Weg zur Erschaffung der YOUNG LIVING-Essenzen einschlagen ließ. Ein Weg voller Abenteuer und faszinierender Erlebnisse und Begegnungen. Maria Schasteen, die große Expertin für Duftmedizin, beschreibt in dieser mit viel Empathie verfassten Biographie das Leben dieses besonderen Menschen, der die alternativen Heilweisen des 21. Jahrhunderts maßgeblich beeinflussen sollte.

Keine Ausreden mehr: In diesem Hörbuch bringt Bestsellerautorin Nicole Staudinger auch Sportmuffel in Bewegung. Das Laufhörbuch ohne Laufplan – aber mit umso mehr Spaß! "Mein erster Lauf-Versuch scheiterte kläglich. Nach nur siebzehn Sekunden. Mehr war als etwas moppelnde Sport-Newcomerin einfach nicht drin. Heute laufe ich drei bis fünf Mal pro Woche – jeweils zwischen fünf und achtzehn Kilometer. Am Stück. Und das seit mehreren Jahren. Wie es zu diesem Weltwunder kommen konnte, was es dafür gebraucht hat (und was nicht), davon erzähle ich in diesem Hörbuch.

The 1946 biography of Harvey Cushing by John Fulton on audiobook for the first time ever!

In telling the history of women in medicine, the pioneers are rightly remembered and celebrated in books, articles, memorials, awards, names of buildings, and organizations. In contrast, the generation who began the transition from minority status to the current numerical equity are seldom memorialized, yet without the efforts of these few determined women in what was unambiguously a male profession, the achievements of these pioneers could easily have withered.