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by Vincent Lam
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by Terrence Holt
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsOut of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made.
by Ira Byock
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsA palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.
by Chris Adrian
Published Jul 2009
Read ReviewsThe stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human sufferingillness, regret, mourning, sympathyin the most unusual of ways - by turns heartbreaking, magical, and darkly comic.
by Kevin Patterson
Published Jul 2008
Read ReviewsBorn on the tundra in the 1950s, Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at the age of ten, she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and evacuated to a southern sanitarium. When she returns home six years later, she finds a radically different world, where the traditionally rootless tribes have uneasily congregated in small ...
by Atul Gawande
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsThe New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession
by Olaf Olafsson
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsA haunting collection of thematically linked stories that encompasses the twelve months of a year, capturing the most candid moments between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children.
by Rick Bass
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsRick Bass's new collection contains a broad range of characters and settings: Filled with Bass's hallmark lean and beautiful prose, they are further proof of his mastery of the short fiction form.
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