Author: Filberth, Dr. Glen Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From an abusive stepfather to leaving home, to working as a transient freight train laborer, to being a cowboy, to working his way through college, this is 8 to 80, the true story of Dr. Glen Filberth...
Author: Nevins, Michael Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When Abraham Flexner died in 1959 at age 92, a New York Times obituary declared, "no other American of his time contributed more to the welfare of his country and of humanity in general." Flexner's fa...
Author: Porter, Dianne M. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book contains information about Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum and various medical terminology that goes along with this condition. It is a beneficial tool for those who have this disease or for...
Author: Riley, Holly Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When was the last time you allowed yourself to forgive, to honestly explore and accept the sometimes painful realities that life delivers? Allowing chronicles one woman's remarkable and poignant journ...
Author: Kline, Jerry Publisher: Pleasant Word Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The remarkable and true story of Jerry Kline's refusal to be intimated by a high-grade brain tumor. Join the author and his family as they are thrust into the unfamiliar world of cancer, surgery, radi...
Author: Kline, Jerry Publisher: Pleasant Word Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The remarkable and true story of Jerry Kline's refusal to be intimated by a high-grade brain tumor. Join the author and his family as they are thrust into the unfamiliar world of cancer, surgery, radi...
Author: Leaf MD, Norman Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Americans have long been fascinated by the personal lives of Hollywood celebrities and the over-hyped magic of plastic surgery. In this entertaining memoir, Dr. Norman Leaf, a highly respected plastic...
Author: Wright, Kathleen Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An 'Odyssey' is described as any extended journey. My life can best be described as a series of odysseys, beginning in the colonial period, in Jamaica, a tiny island in the Carribean Sea, extending to...
Author: Snell, Jim Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After forty years as an electronics engineer, Jim Snell had a stroke that ended his career but not his life. In 2007, Jim suffered the fate of many Americans who do not eat nutritiously and who live a...
Author: Currie, Diane Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Imagine the heart-wrenching devastation that is experienced by a family when a parent is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease! In Before My Eyes, author Diane Currie shares her candid and personal refle...
Author: Monif MD, Gilles Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From its founding 1736, Bellevue Hospital has been a dumping ground into which a city poured its poor, elderly, and dying. What makes the oldest hospital in the United States unique is that Bellevue i...
Author: Pickett-Nelson, Eudora Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Two million Americans will sustain a traumatic brain injury this year. An estimated seventy-five percent will be mild traumatic injuries caused by a concussion, a blow or jolt to the head, or a penetr...
Author: Brenner, Paul Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A physician's training is not complete until it integrates the wisdom of his or her patients....I feel like the ancient mariner. I have taken a long, stormy, forty-year journey in search of the medica...
Author: Vanderzee, Robert Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Burt Russell Shurly; A Man of Conviction, A Life in Medicine and Education, 1871-1950, Robert Vanderzee continues the story of the Shurly family, focusing on a physician and educator who, with the ...
Author: Davis, Phyllis L. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With all the technology and research material available, one can be educated in physcial health and nutrition along with your medications. There are many books and pamphlets to read. I found myself re...
Author: Fisher, Terryann Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: TerryAnn Fisher never dreamed she would outlive her son. In her compelling memoir, Conversations with my Son, she chronicles her life from the day she received the phone call that would change her l...
Author: Butler, Dennis Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the story of a nurses' career. It starts as a nursing assitant in psychiatry where he became the best man in his patient's wedding and tracks through the war zone of the high-tech intensive ca...
Author: Blossom MD, Don Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Don Blossom, a certified pediatrician for more than four decades, relives a personal journey from childhood through a long career in medicine. Occasionally, over the course of his career, he came to t...
Author: Brill, Alida / Lockshin, Michael D. Publisher: Schaffner Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An invaluable resource for medical professionals, victims of chronic illnesses, and their loved ones, this dual memoir by a doctor and his longtime patient traces the growth of their unique friendship...
Author: Golin, Milton Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "You are there in these real-life stories: A necessary inflight armed mutiny...Evasion of enemy planes near Mount Everest storms...A jailhouse talk with the dynamiter of an airliner...Participation in...
Author: Pedersen DDS, James Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When James Pedersen, DDS graduated from dental school, he knew how to make his own gold castings, build his own porcelain crowns, cast his own partial denture frameworks, weld the fixed bridges togeth...
Author: Milham MD Mph, Samuel Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric light, heat, and power; in the process, though...
Author: Strube MD, Roger H. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The health care system remains in crisis, and it's hurting the overall economy. Join an insider as he examines the problem and offers solutions. Everyone knows that there are severe challenges when it...
Author: Lovrien, Everett Winslow Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Brent admired the chimpanzee he sketched at the zoo. He regarded the animal as contemplative. He was unaware that similar animals in the wilds of Africa were the source of a virus that would lead to h...
Author: Jellinek, John Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An unsung American heroine, Dolores - a nurse in surgery - is betrayed by her own kind: doctors! Th e first one, a gynecologist, keeps her waiting for 3 months before he does a D & C, and by way of a...
Author: Sarkees, Joey Lynn Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Earth Angels is the true story of Molly Perchinski and sixteen of her Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Women's Rugby Club teammates who risked their young lives to save countless others after ...
Author: Royce, Marion Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From Pioneer Public Health Nurse to Advocate for the Aged: Eunice Henrietta Dyke. A Dynamic personalityi whose determination improved public health care and nurses' education, and began the recognitio...
Author: Robertson, Randy Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "This book tells the story of one family. It's a personal journey as all these journeys are, but it generously points out a path that others may choose to follow." -Michael Compain, M.D., Rhinebeck H...
Description: Synopsis: In 1978, Cindy Kunzendorf discovered that she had Hodgkin's Disease. Over the next thirty years, she would go through three different bouts of cancer, surviving every one. Her family memorie...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of new essays...
Author: Musil, Shirley Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: My life was spent searching for the reason for my existence while coping with multiple congenital defects. I became convinced that each day offers new adventure if only in the recesses of my mind. Eve...
Author: Cohen, Morris A. Publisher: CCB Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1927 in the field of health care an unusual event occurred. Morris Aaron Cohen, M.D. founded the Boston Evening Clinic, an unique and never before conceived facility for the treatment of the indige...
Description: Carolyn Jourdan, an attorney on Capitol Hill, thought she had it made. But when her mother has a heart attack, she returns home—to the Tennessee mountains, where her father is a country doctor a...
Author: George, Derek Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Before their child is even born, Derek and Annette George know that they are in for a long fight. On January 6, 1994, doctors deliver the bad news: their unborn son has hyperplastic left heart defect,...
Author: Kahle, Kris Kellar Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rick Kahle, wonderful husband and father of a beautiful five-year-old daugher was struck down in his third Lupus attack. He was not expected to live yet no one gave up on him. The sicker he became, th...
Author: Callaway, Barbara J. Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Hildegard Peplau's 50-year career in nursing left an indelible stamp on the profession of nursing, and on the lives of the mentally ill in this country. She wore many hats -- founder of modern psy
Author: Love, Tyesha K. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On December 10, 2007, just three months shy of her thirtieth birthday, Tyesha Love received a phone call that would change her life forever. After being told she had stage 2 breast cancer, Tyesha's wo...
Author: Rudden, Jane Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first book on the subject of breast cancer survival from the point of view of a woman who has the support of seven sisters, If We Must Dance, Then I Will Lead combines memoir and science writing. ...
Author: Russell, Kimberly Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1960, Betty and Larry Vinton become the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl named Kimberly. When Larry's aunt, a nurse, comes to visit, she suggests they take their ten-day-old daughter to the p...
Author: Rose, Charles Publisher: NewSouth Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In the Midst of Life is a moving, evocatively described narrative of the patients and caregivers Charles Rose encountered as a hospice volunteer. It is also a perceptive account of his own journey int...
Author: Pargeter, Doug Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: More people than you may realize suffer from the effects of schizophrenia, and there is no cure for this mental illness. In Insight into Disability, author Doug Pargeter candidly reveals his battle wi...
Author: Murray, M. D. John F. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Intensive Care is an affecting view from the trenches, a seasoned doctor's minute-by-minute and day-by-day account of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a major inner-city hospital, San Francisc...
Author: Rule, Jim Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jim and Peg Rule were living active lives when without warning, back pain signaled the onset of cancer and in less than nine months, Jim's life partner of thirty-seven years was gone. Like many oth...
Author: Levan M.D., Norman E. / Cohn, Gordon Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It never would have occurred to me to record the story of my life; I believed it to be of little public interest . However, Professor Jonathan Halevy, director general of Shaare Zedek Medical Center i...
Author: Marty, David Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Life doesn't always follow the path that one expects it to. In this memoir, author David Marty narrates the story of his life's path and the challenges he overcame on the journey. Living Beyond Rain...
Author: Patton, Richard R. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Manic Episodes and the Dark Side draws the reader in with an autobiographical sketch of a misspent youth, then plunges into the terror of bipolar illness. Rich Patton travels the rocky road from the d...
