Medical

This is a unique story. It is the story of a doctor and the many patients she sees every day. A tale of the diversity of life, the uniqueness of individuals and the impact of deprivation on the health of society. It is a book about being human, the...

* Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize *Honest, intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique testament to the power of hope in the face of illness.Charlotte Raven had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525958Author Frances K ConleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452285071Author Jennifer Lee CarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm...

'Wind-whipped and salt-stung, Malcolm's account of island life is both grounding and immensely heart-warming. He is to GPs what James Herriot is to vets.' MATT GAW'A fascinating, funny and utterly heart-warming family adventure. Beautifully written and...

A moving memoir following the author's own experience of psychosis What if psychosis is really a wake up call? Emma Goude is a twenty-something who works at the BBC. She likes to party and take drugs... until she decides to give them up... and that's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628729863Author Donald R. KirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788305464Author Vera HemsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmMy brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?Robert McCrum was forty-two when he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849637190Author Tim WottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528977302Author Dr Patrick TreacyFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Like a third of the UK population, Julia has a chronic pain condition. According to her doctors, it can't be cured. She doesn't believe them. She does believe in miracles, though. It's just a question of tracking one down. Julia's search for a cure takes...

'A moving, compelling and vital book, that sheds much needed light on the very latest understanding of cancer.' - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies 'A gripping, heartbreaking, accessible personal journey through love and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054517Author Reinhard FriedlFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

BBC Breakfast's Dr Rosemary Leonard shares a collection of incredible true tales from her twenty years as a south London GP.'Hello, this is the emergency services. Do you require fire, police or ambulance?' asked the female switchboard operator with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451695199Author Dr. Eben AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781594633799Author Meghan O'RourkeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Hudson Street Press (an...

How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a broken healthcare system?'A fascinating and beautifully written memoir that reminds us what we have with our NHS - and what we stand to lose'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443842Author Hayley ArceneauxFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 217mm *...

'A visceral, scathing, erudite read that digs deep into how modern medicine continues to fail women and what can be done about it' Booklist The darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey's years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662936098Author Paul A RuggieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

If you thought you knew about the life of a GP, think again.Let me take you on an unbelievable journey to the truth, through spilt urine bottles, the patients who should have been in hospital months ago, existential crises, utterly unexplainable health...

If you thought you knew about the life of a GP, think again.Let me take you on an unbelievable journey to the truth, through spilt urine bottles, the patients who should have been in hospital months ago, existential crises, utterly unexplainable health...

In the last year we've called our doctors heroes, but what is daily life really like? Discover the truth, hurt, heartbreak, life and death and everything in between through 34 Patients 'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' Dr Richard Shepherd,...

In this heart-breaking, inspirational memoir, Rochelle nurses her beloved mother through a terminal brain tumour. With sensitivity and enormous emotional depth, Handle with Care provides a window into the life of a young carer.When her mum falls...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061230974Author John GuntherFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

For years, Daniel Smith suffered from bouts of acute anxiety, extended episodes without any apparent cause that seized control of his body and mind, leaving him an emotional wreck. Sleep was impossible and headaches and nausea haunted his days. Anxiety...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881358Author Jim LinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 212g

'A profound meditation on a problem many of us will face; worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal' KirkusAs the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her...

When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. She thought, and thought, and then, though she didn't know why, she wrote: 'I want to be thin.'Over the next twelve years, she developed anorexia nervosa, was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439199398Author Moises Velasquez-ManoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & Schuster

Virginia Howes was a mother of four doing the ironing when she had a revelation. Still broody, but not really wanting to add to her family, she realised that becoming a midwife was her true vocation. It was a long journey to get the education and...

Virginia Howes was a mother of four doing the ironing when she had a revelation. Still broody, but not really wanting to add to her family, she realised that becoming a midwife was her true vocation. It was a long journey to get the education and...

At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the...

Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a young woman, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours had come to completely dominate her life. She knew that something was wrong, but it would take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593312834Author John HendricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

'A third presence has arrived in my marriage. Ms Alzheimer's - I think of her as a hideous, brain-eating monster - has come to live with us. Permanently.' In April 2017, Susan's husband Nicholas was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. This was followed by 28...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648391715Author Geraldine Violet MagillFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Geraldine MagillPublisher Geraldine MagillWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm)...

'TIMELY' David Mitchell 'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES 'ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I READ IT.' Owen Sheers 'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND WISE... A LIBERATING BOOK' Colm Toibin In an age of...

David Lovelace, along his brother and both his parents, is bipolar. This is his extraordinary and vivid memoir of life within his memorable, maddening, loving and unique family. Full Blown is Lovelace's poignant, humorous, and vivid account of...