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The number one Sunday Times bestseller. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2025 Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Award Concordia University First Book Award and Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A Hill Times Top 100 Best Book of 2025 The...

This is Emily Blooms journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology. Emily faces decisions regarding genetic testing and diagnosis, technologies that offer the illusion of certainty but carry the weight of hard...

Fresh out of medical school, Linda Dahl began her surgical residency in the Bronx as a total fish out of water. Growing up in a Middle Eastern family in the American Midwest, she was a born outsider, and in her new community in New York, she felt even more isolated. Even at work she struggled to...

Internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander always considered himself a man of science. His unwavering belief in evidence-based medicine fuelled a career in the top medical institutions of the world. But all this was set to change. One morning in 2008 he fell into a coma after suffering a rare form of bacterial meningitis. Scans of his brain revealed massive damage. Death was deemed the most likely outcome.

Stories full of infectious, hospital-grade humour and loads of heart, from Australia's favourite nurse. Showering in gumboots. Bomb threats. Tables of turds. Welcome to the life of a nurse. Nurses are our number-one unsung heroes. They're the ones in the trenches mopping up bodily fluids...

In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia. Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the...

From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir—reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire—about her experience as the third person ever to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving ten...

Lee Lipsenthal had a charmed life: married to the love of his life, the proud father of two remarkable children, working as medical director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. In his personal relationships and with his patients, Lee was committed to living his life fully and gratefully each day. The power of those beliefs was tested in July 2009, when he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, leaving him with a 90 percent chance of dying within five years.

When we need help, we count on doctors to put us back together. But what happens when doctors fall apart? Funny, fresh, and deeply affecting, We Are All Perfectly Fine is the story of a married mother of three on the brink of personal and professional collapse who attends rehab with a twist: a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree and Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon, here is a heartfelt, funny and surprising memoir about one year spent driving a bus full of children with special needs. One morning in 2008, desperate, broke and living alone while trying...

Der Löwe von Lahr erzählt die Geschichte der Löwenapotheke in Lahr von ihren Anfängen im 17. Jahrhundert bis zu ihrer Schließung im Jahr 2026. Es ist die Geschichte von Apothekern, Forschern, Bürgern und Familien, die über Generationen hinweg Verantwortung trugen, Wissen weitergaben und den Menschen ihrer Stadt halfen. Briefe an Fürsten, alte Rezeptbücher, wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, Familienerinnerungen und historische Dokumente verweben sich zu einer lebendigen Erzählung über Arbeit, Pflicht, Wandel und Zeit.

15,000 captive macaques. One naive 22-year-old vet tech. A summer you couldn’t make up if you tried. Nobody warns you what to do when a full grown rhesus with two-inch fangs and a 350-pound bite decides to charge. In the summer of 1995, twenty-two-year-old Jeff Pennington took a job as a veterinary technician at a sprawling primate breeding facility in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Within weeks he found himself alone in a corral, net in hand, learning exactly what the fight-or-flight instinct means. And that was a normal Tuesday.

The Wrong Order of Things is a rare look inside the heart-wrenching but heart-warming world of children's palliative care, in both NHS hospitals and children's hospices, by renowned consultant Dr Michelle Hills.

**My COVID19 Diary ** is a powerful narrative that embodies hope and the unwavering companionship of faith. At the heart of this memoir is Dr. Wee's fearless exploration of how the novel virus impacted her daily life and pediatric practice. She skillfully combines her healthcare expertise with personal experiences filled with loss, resilience, and the guiding presence of faith. As the world grappled with fear, panic, and uncertainty, Dr. Wee turned to her daily blog for solace and inspiration.

When COVID changed my life, I expected to recover. Instead, I found myself on a journey through chronic illness, unanswered questions, and a world that couldn't see what I was experiencing. This memoir is an honest account of living with an invisible illness and the challenges that followed: fatigue, dizziness, migraines, uncertainty, and losing the life I once knew. Through moments of grief, faith, and unexpected hope, I share what it was like to navigate a medical system without clear answers while holding on to the belief that my story would help someone.

I didn’t know I was dying. I didn’t know a kidney stone was blocking my ureter. I didn’t know an infection was spreading through my body. But God and Jesus knew — and They carried me through every moment. What began as an ordinary day quickly turned into a medical crisis that changed everything. One moment I was laughing with my sister at a Women’s Appreciation event… and hours later, I was fighting for my life in a hospital bed, weak, septic, and unaware of how close I was to losing everything.

In this gripping memoir, Andrew W. Seefeld traces the hidden emotional architecture that shapes our lives long before we recognize it. Through an unflinching personal narrative, he examines how early wounds give rise to protective strategies — achievement, control, perfectionism, and emotional withdrawal — that help us survive and even succeed. But what happens when the very strategies that once protected us begin to consume us?

Embrace profound lessons on forgiveness and healing from the intimate, transformative threshold of end-of-life care. This deeply poignant memoir guides listeners through the tender moments shared at the bedside of those facing their final hours. For caregivers navigating grief or anyone seeking...

Enter the frontline reality of a busy intensive care unit in this gripping medical memoir of survival, grief, and hope. Guided by a seasoned nurse across a single, unforgettable year, you will witness the quiet courage required when navigating medical emergencies and heartbreaking end-of-life...