Product Description: An epic story told by a unique voice in Ameri�can medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physi�cian. In riveting first-person prose, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes us to the front lines of medicine today...read more

White Coat Wisdom is an award-winning oral history featuring extremely accomplished professionals who've found true fulfillment in life through service to others. It is the 2009 Winner of the Eric Hoffer Awards, in the Health category. This title endured rigorous judging and surpassed dozens of books within its category. It was also a 2009 Finalist for the Montaigne Literary Medal, awarded to the most thought-provoking titles. These are books that either illuminate, progress, or redirect thought. It also earned Finalist ranking for the 2009 Indie Awards. They recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books in 60 different categories.

Product Description: Proposing the patient-doctor relationship that was central in traditional medicine be brought back to the center of the healthcare system, this history observes how the high cost of technology-based care has caused an economic squeeze through wasteful and ineffective practices...read more

The National Public Radio essayist shares fifteen tales of life in the medical profession, covering a wide range of issues, including abortion, psychological abuse, and suicide, always with humor and pathos. 10,000 first printing.

A series of vignettes and anecdotes examines the practice of modern-day medicine in a revealing study of the practical realities and emotional truths underlying the doctor-patient relationship that offers important lessons for healers, as well as those who are seeking help, about what happens during a open dialogue about vital issues of health and mortality. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Fifty years before Resident Life became a reality television show on The Learning Channel, Clifton Meador lived, breathed, and sometimes slept the life of a med student at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Meador recalls those days in a fascinating and entertaining memoir, packed with stories, vignettes, and experiences that capture a time and place gone by...read more

A collection of true accounts of meaningful relationships between doctors and patients demonstrates the healing potential of productive interaction in the face of rampant depersonalization in the world of managed care health systems. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: How patients heal doctorsIn Patients and Doctors, physicians from around the world share stories of the patients they’ll never forget, patients who have changed the way they practice medicine. Their thoughtful reflections on a variety of themes—from suffering to humor to death—help us to understand the experience of doctoring, in all its ordinary and extraordinary aspects...read more