Medical Reading

Get ready to gag, laugh, and learn with Scary Medicine: Horrible Cures and Creepy Diseases from History! From leeches and bloodletting to quack devices that promised to cure everything from headaches to “the vapors,” medical history is stranger - and grosser - than you ever imagined. This book dives into the weird, shocking, and sometimes hilarious world of medicine from 1800 to the 1970s, revealing: Deadly diseases like tuberculosis, typhoid, smallpox, and the Spanish flu - and how people tried to survive them Bizarre treatments including electric belts, vibrating chairs, and “...

He’s my patient. The legend I’m supposed to heal. And the one man I’m not allowed to want. I’m a surgeon. Rules and control are what keep me steady. But Derek Callahan is anything but steady. He’s chaos in cleats and my biggest mistake waiting to happen. He’s supposed to be recovering. I’m supposed to keep my distance. Instead, I’m watching the man who once owned the football field fight his way back…and fight me every step of the way. He tests my limits and my patience. Every smug grin, every cocky wink, every inch of six-foot-two confidence he struts around with. But ...

Brought to you by Penguin. *** Now a major motion picture starring Letitia Wright *** When identical twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with anyone but each other, and so began a childhood bound together in a strange and secret world. As they grew up...

The Unexpected Crush, the hot and sexy series by Alexa Wilder, is now available as a complete series. For the first time you can read all five books in one volume! She won’t sacrifice her dreams for a man. He proves she doesn’t have to. Kaia Davenport has left her old life behind. Now an intern at a prestigious hospital, she’s sacrificed so much to get where she is. She’s confident in her job, but when it comes to her curvy body, she’s learned she’s not in every man’s taste. And it’s not like she has time to date - all she cares about is her dream of being a doctor. ...

“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles Times This “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine” (The Guardian) explores the question: where does an uninsured person go when turned...

This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize winning investigation of schizophrenia - now reissued with a new postscript - follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness. "Sylvia Frumkin" was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life.

A SheReads Most Anticipated Novel of 2021 Jessica Strawser's A Million Reasons Why is "a fascinating foray into the questions we are most afraid to ask" (Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author)--the story of two women who discover a bond between them that will change both their lives...

A pediatric ER doctor. Her brother's best friend. One forty-pound pumpkin. Three years of unfinished business. Claire Bennett saves children for a living — but she can't save herself from the confession she made three years ago. The night she told Ryan Mitchell she'd had feelings for him since high school, he said nothing. She's been avoiding him ever since. Ryan Mitchell builds custom furniture and carries the weight of words he never said. He froze that night because he was dating someone else. He ended that relationship six months later — because of Claire. But by then, she'd stopped...

Since the first book things have progressively and rather rapidly got worse. That book was about living cheap so you can have a better life, now it seems you have to live cheap just to survive. Things have changed and not for the better. The virus that kind of invaded our space and the government's reaction to it has doubled down, so now we have to live cheap just to survive. Before living cheap was a lifestyle choice now it seemed it is more of a necessity just to keep your head above water. The government's reaction to the virus is a concern, but the government reaction to climate change ...

A Gripping Medical Thriller for English Learners (CEFR B1) "You are immune. You are the only person in the world who can survive this poison." Gemma wakes up in a sterile, windowless room with no memory of how she got there. The last thing she remembers is a strange, sweet fog at the Oxford train station—and the horrifying sight of people collapsing. Now, isolated and sedated by silent, terrifying figures in yellow hazmat suits, she realizes a chilling truth: this isn't a hospital. It's a high-security prison. When a sympathetic doctor finally reveals the devastating reality, Gemma's ...

A short story collection from Ripped Tide author Lance Carney: supernatural horror and science fiction, injected with a cc or two of humor. A physician, kicked off the psychiatric hospital’s medical staff, creates his own museum with living specimens, including Elvis and Martin Luther King Jr….What could make matters worse for Union soldiers confined to Andersonville Prison during the Civil War—is there a demon in their midst?….A rock ‘n’ roll demon terrorizes a teenage boy with bad lyrics and Dr. Seuss’ misquotes….Two physicians practice medicine in the last years of the ...

SAT 1560 Plus: The Ultimate Real Practice, Secrets & Strategies Guide — Realistic Questions, Elite Hacks, and Insider Techniques to Master Every Section and Ace the SAT Test If your dream is an Ivy League acceptance letter and an SAT score that leaves admissions officers speechless — you’re holding the ultimate key to make it happen. SAT 1560 Plus isn’t just another test prep book — it’s your all-access pass to the strategies, real questions, and score-boosting secrets used by the top 0.1% of SAT scorers. This is the guide for students who refuse to settle for average. Inside ...

During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast...

A Gripping Medical Thriller for Spanish Learners (CEFR B1) «Usted es inmune. Es la única persona en el mundo que puede sobrevivir a este veneno.» Teresa wakes up in a sterile, windowless room with no memory of how she got there. The last thing she remembers is a strange, sweet fog at the Salamanca train station—and the horrifying sight of people collapsing. Now, isolated and sedated by silent, terrifying figures in yellow hazmat suits, she realizes a chilling truth: this isn't a hospital. It's a high-security prison. When a sympathetic doctor finally reveals the devastating reality, ...

Murder is a crime. Forcing someone to live forever is something else entirely. In this explosive new thriller, the age-old quest for immortality becomes a terrifying tool for power and global control. The sinister reality of bio-engineering explodes into public view near the Vatican, where a man...

Christian Hale went to the clinic for a routine dental procedure. He woke up with a shadow living behind his teeth. At first it is just a slight delay in his reflection. A second breath originating from deep within his own lungs. But the symptoms are escalating. The parasite is growing, learning, and mimicking his voice with absolute perfection. Worse still, the clinic has no record of his visit, internet forums discussing similar symptoms are being systematically scrubbed, and the files tracking his physical takeover prove they have been watching him the entire time. Trapped inside a ...

A funny and empowering memoir from a girl with a severe form of cerebral palsy, for fans of Wonder and Out of My Mind. When she was just a tiny baby, something terrible happened to Lexi. It left her with an out-of-control body and without a voice. Now, as a precocious, superhero-obsessed...

An emotional story that encourage us to overcome ourselves We will meet a doctor who only prescribes injections and medicines. Will he cure all the patients who go through his consultation? In this emotional story we will get into the skin of a child who is afraid of punctures and who may also need a special treatment. Bilingual Tale available in both English and Spanish. The book also contains pictures to learn the alphabet through three sections: Learn the alphabet Letter ... is for ... Spell it out Other books in the series Tales to be told All the tales together can also be found in a ...

What is Psychiatry and How Can We Improve It? In the last hundred years, most of the medical sciences have progressed in immense and unforeseeable ways―except for psychiatry, which has somehow remained immune to this progress. Daniel Barron, a psychiatrist who trained at the Yale School of...

THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION It starts with just one body – tortured, mummified and then discarded. Its discovery reveals a nightmare world of hidden lives. Of lost identities, secret rituals and brutal exploitation, where nobody can be trusted. This is the darkest, most complex case the police...