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Book cover for Atul Gawande: Better

Better : A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Atul Gawande
Hardcover - $38.95

The "New York Times" bestselling author examines the complex and risk-filled medical profession and how those involved progress from merely good to great. Gawande provides rare insight and offers an honest firsthand account of his own life as a surge ...

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Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande
Paperback - $23.95

This collection of gripping accounts of true cases explores the power and thelimits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge.

Book cover for Atul Gawande: Complications

Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande
Hardcover - $42.95

A book about medicine that reads like a thriller, "Complications" is "a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies" (Adam Gopnik, author of "From Paris to the Moon").

Book cover for Steve Giegerich: Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge : One Semester of Gross Anatomy, the Gateway to Becoming a Doctor

Steve Giegerich
Paperback - $32.95

Medical Gross and Developmental Anatomy is the course every medical student dreads. As one aspiring physician described it to journalist-author Steve Giegerich, "it's the bridge you have to cross if you want to become a doctor."

Four lab partners ...

Book cover for Karen Glumm: Releasing an Imprisoned Spirit

Releasing an Imprisoned Spirit : Removing the Seizure Focal Point

Karen Glumm
Paperback - $54.95



Book cover for F. Gonzalez-Crussi: On Being Born

On Being Born : And Other Difficulties

F. Gonzalez-Crussi
Paperback - $26.95



Book cover for Lee Gutkind: Silence Kills

Silence Kills : Speaking Out and Saving Lives

Lee Gutkind
Hardcover - $36.95



Book cover for Jack Hasson: Why Even Good Doctors Make Mistakes

Why Even Good Doctors Make Mistakes : An Anecdotal Introduction to Medicine

Jack Hasson
Paperback - $30.95



Book cover for Loreen Herwaldt: Patient Listening

Patient Listening : A Doctor's Guide

Loreen Herwaldt
Paperback - $51.95

From the fictional portrayal of Dr. Gregory House to Jerome Groopman's bestseller "How Doctors Think," both medical professionals and the general public recognize that there is more to the doctor's job than technical practice. Yet why do so many pati ...

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