Physician Memoirs

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

In 1949, Ron Losee, a young Yale Medical School graduate, headed west with his wife and small daughter to begin the practice of medicine. They settled in Ennis, Montana, in a log cabin that also became their office and lab. Patients made themselves at home in the living room. One small bag held all their medical equipment. It was a proud moment when a patient first called Losee "Doc." His fee on that occasion was three dollars.

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives, highlighting the complex mind-body connection. "As intensely involving as any scripted for a television medical drama."...

Listen, Think, & Speak Like a Doctor is a witty, relatable, and honest book full of sage advice regarding the real-life challenges and practice demands of becoming and being a physician. Students graduate from medical school with a knowledge of body systems, disease processes, and care algorithms. They’ve learned to treat but not necessarily how to connect with patients as people. It’s these difficult-to-learn connection skills that trip doctors up and that patients need doctors to have to ensure the best outcomes. Dr. Thakur shares actionable wisdom through relatable, engaging ...

🏅 Two-Time GOLD Medal Winner — Global Book Awards Medical Books and Education & Teaching _________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Dr. Mel Ona's story is a powerful reminder that failure is not the end, but the pathway to reinvention. Fail It Till You Make It inspires anyone facing setbacks to embrace resilience and rediscover their true passions.” — Skip La Cour, #1 Authority Helping Older Men Get Healthy and Fit, 6-Time National Champion Drug-Free Bodybuilder “Dr. Mel Ona shows us that failure is not the end, but rather...

What if the greatest lessons in healing come when life completely unravels? As a young, healthy physician-in-training studying abroad, she was immersed in discovery—new cultures, new perspectives, and a growing curiosity about what it truly means to heal. She never expected to become her own patient. When subtle symptoms began to emerge, she did what she was trained to do—analyze, assess, and search for answers. But this time, the diagnosis was her own: A brain tumor. A malignant, incurable, life-altering tumor. In Difficult Gifts, this powerful memoir traces an unexpected journey from ...

Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Healing) narrative-driven medical memoir that places you directly in the crucible of urgent life-or-death decision-making, offering insights that can help us cope at a time when the world around...

"Fantastic" - Dr. Glaucomflecken Previous Amazon #1 Best Seller - Anesthesiology Dive into a hilarious assortment of real-life medical stories and adventures from the operating room and beyond! Artfully written with a witty, authentic, and often sarcastic tone, I Watch You Sleep is a humorous and profound collection of true medical stories, drawn from the life and career of practicing anesthesiologist Zach Antonov, MD. As the lovechild of an often-misunderstood medical field and a passion for amateur comedy, this book is bursting with pointed anecdotes, silly stories from college and med ...

Young Joy, who has been experiencing the stifling control of the Chinese government over the lofty ambitions of university students like herself to study abroad, has just realized that the forces amassed against her won't budge a millimeter despite her efforts to work within the system. So Joy initiates a complex series of daring scenarios to beat the legal system at its own game in order to secure her exit visa to the United States. And she does: transforming herself into the Tiger of Beijing. Calculated. Intuitive. Fierce.

Dr. Mabel E. Elliott, an American physician, served in Turkey, Armenia, and Greece from 1919 to 1923, helping Armenian and Greek refugees and orphans following World War I for Near East Relief and American Women's Hospitals, humanitarian organizations that served the region. She saw unimaginable massacres and torture while caring for thousands of refugees and orphans. Rose Wilder Lane, journalist and novelist, worked for the American Red Cross and Near East Relief from 1919 to 1923. Dr. Elliott agreed to work on a book for Near East Relief, and the two collaborated on a sweeping memoir that...

Physician, Heal Thyself is a groundbreaking exploration of the bridge between Western medicine and spirituality from the perspective of a traditionally trained medical doctor. Drawing from her personal and clinical experiences along with scientific research, Dr. Seema Khaneja provides a clear explanation of the basic principles of A Course in Miracles, long regarded a classic among modern spiritual teachings.

Trapped under siege. Hunted through the mountains. One doctor’s unforgettable fight to survive. January 1920. The city of Marash, Turkey, erupts in chaos as Turkish Nationalists lay siege to the streets. Inside the Near East Relief hospital, Dr. Mabel E. Elliott and her staff fight to save lives while trapped under relentless gunfire. Food runs short. Wounded flood in. Escape seems impossible. Dr. Elliott’s firsthand account plunges readers into those desperate weeks of terror and courage, when survival hung by a thread. Her story reaches its climax in a dramatic flight with retreating ...

THE FLOOR GOES FOR EVERYONE EVENTUALLY. This is not a book about bouncing back. It is a book about what remains when everything that defined you has been stripped away. Sonny Saggar was a physician, an emergency room doctor for twenty-five years, a man people were glad to see walk into a room. By one o'clock on an ordinary afternoon, it was all gone. Indicted, and later incarcerated, he began this book by hand inside a federal prison camp and finished it after his release, while still on supervised release. In these pages, the difference between losing and being lost. Why pain is inevitable...

Free Refills is the harrowing tale of a Harvard-trained medical doctor run horribly amok through his addiction to prescription medication, and his recovery. Dr. Peter Grinspoon seemed to be a total success: a Harvard-educated M.D. with a thriving practice; married with two great kids and a...

When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics...

Bullets, Blizzards, and Bravery: Meet the Woman Who Defined Medical Heroism “By some vagary of chance, she was fated to be always in the center of great events.” —Marie Leeds, Press of Atlantic City For fans of The Doctors Blackwell and A Woman of No Importance comes the story of Dr. Mabel E. Elliott, who cared for thousands of Armenian and Greek refugees through bullets, blizzards, and deadly disease following World War I. She continued her overseas service in 1925 and practiced for 16 years in earthquake-ravaged Tokyo, revolutionizing healthcare for mothers and children. As one of ...

There are many struggles in this difficult world that can darken our skies. It may be ongoing health issues, depression/anxiety, relationship struggles, financial calamity and so much more.

A Life in Trauma is a frank, remarkable account of a career spent helping others, offering a positive outlook on the potential of Ireland’s healthcare system in the future. Concern. Compassion. Doubt. Despair. Anger. Hope. Imagine juggling these feelings every day in a situation where your work could mean the difference between someone's life or death.

A collection of the most memorable moments from old-school rural physicians who each practiced medicine for more than 50 years in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Hilarious, heroic, heartwarming true stories of miracle cures, ghost dogs, and much madcap medical mayhem.

He was a cardiologist at the top of his game-until his own body turned on him. On an ordinary Monday, a sudden cramp in Dr. Deepak Thekkoott's leg sent him on a harrowing journey from healer to patient. Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, he was thrown into the chaos of hospitals, chemo, and confronting death-all while trying to hold his family, his faith, and his sense of self together.