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Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
RRP: $25.33$17.73Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been... -
The Consultant Interview by Sara Watkin 9780199594801
RRP: $99.45$74.37Covering the whole preparation process for your consultant interview, this is the only book you will need to succeed. Becoming a consultant is the key moment of your career and getting a position can be a difficult, competitive and stressful process... -
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole 9781529040326
RRP: $23.38$16.44Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse, entrepreneur and intrepid traveller. Soon to be a major motion picture starring GuGu Mbatha-Raw.Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
Deadly Quiet City: Stories From Wuhan, COVID Ground Zero by Murong Xuecun
RRP: $29.23$19.46From one of China's most celebrated and silenced literary authors, Murong Xuecun, Deadly Quiet City is an unforgettable collection of true stories from the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. On 23 January 2020, Wuhan was placed in total... -
Pure: Now a major Channel 4 series by Rose Cartwright
RRP: $19.48$13.36Now a major Channel 4 seriesRose Cartwright has OCD, but not as you know it. Pure is the true story of her ten-year struggle with 'Pure O', a little-known form of the condition, which causes her to experience intrusive sexual thoughts of shocking... -
Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care by Dr Jim Down 9780241506394
RRP: $21.43$15.15'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam KayIn these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit - the section of the hospital where the sickest patients are brought to be cared... -
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles Graeber
RRP: $19.48$13.07NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND JESSICA CHASTAIN'A stunning book... should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood' New York TimesAfter his arrest in 2003, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed 'The Angel of Death' by the media... -
Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story by Gabriel Weston
RRP: $19.48$13.86How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands?What is it like to cut into someone else's body? What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your seniors? How do you tell a beautiful young man who... -
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor by Dr Tony Bleetman
RRP: $27.28$19.01'During open-chest resuscitations, I've held a non-beating, recently stilled human heart in my hands. And, should you ever get to hold one, you will find the human heart to be rubbery and shockingly light.'What Could Possibly Go Wrong? is a report from... -
A Surgeon and a Maverick: The Life and Pioneering Work of Magdi Yacoub by Simon Pearson 9781649031969
RRP: $48.73$39.57"[A] remarkable journey." -The TelegraphThe incredible life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succeeded against the odds Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable... -
Mind on Fire: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 by Arnold Thomas Fanning
RRP: $21.43$15.15Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019'[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of [Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book.' Irish Times'Extraordinary. An account of mental... -
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan
RRP: $21.43$14.64'It is in every sense, mind-blowing.' Telegraph In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and... -
Pain: What It Is, Why It Happens and How to Cope by Dr Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen
RRP: $19.48$12.71'Combines a career's worth of expertise with a long history of pain treatment. For anyone concerned with pain treatment, or anyone who has struggled to manage pain of any kind, it's an important read.' GQPain is a universal human experience, but we... -
Life in Her Hands: The Pioneering Career of One Female Surgeon by Averil Mansfield
RRP: $39.00$27.87'A great read. I am honoured to have worked with such a legend' David Nott'A role model for women' Independent'A wonderful read' Julian Fellowes'Remarkable' Lauren Laverne'Charming' GuardianWe were occasionally expected to travel by ambulance to a... -
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
RRP: $21.43$15.15For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes Furiously Happy from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened.In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious... -
Starvation Heights: The chilling true story of the doctor who starved her patients to death by Gregg Olsen
RRP: $17.53$12.09The shocking true-crime story of two orphaned sisters who arrived at a health retreat as patients - but only one would ever make it out alive... An extraordinary and gripping account of the starvation doctor from the #1 New York Times bestselling author... -
Frontline Midwife: Finding hope in life, death and birth by Anna Kent
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Brutally powerful . . . Totally absorbing' Independent 'A gripping, honest and moving account of healthcare work in a war zone' Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm At twenty-six years old, Anna Kent helped a woman deliver her baby in a tropical storm... -
PROSTrATE CANCER: The Misunderstood Male Killer by Graham Sharpe 9780857304629
RRP: $25.33$16.77Prostate cancer really is the little understood male killer. 1 in 8 UK males will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, more than 130 new cases are discovered each day and, on average, one man dies from the disease every 45 minutes. Despite these... -
Can You Hear Me?: A Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death by Jake Jones 9781529404289 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53$3.86A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'With poignancy, humour and compassion, Jones invites us into "the invigorating chaos of pre-hospital care" . . . a panorama of experiences: the mundane, the ridiculous, the heartbreaking and the tragic' - The... -
Can You Hear Me?: A Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death by Jake Jones
RRP: $17.53$12.09A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'With poignancy, humour and compassion, Jones invites us into "the invigorating chaos of pre-hospital care" . . . a panorama of experiences: the mundane, the ridiculous, the heartbreaking and the tragic' - The... -
Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
RRP: $25.33$16.69Long Description ILL FEELINGS is a collective biography of medically unexplained illness. Structured around the narrative of their own ill feelings, Alice Hattrick uncovers their and their mother's case histories, and branches out into the records of ill... -
The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon by Thomas E. Starzl 9780822958369
$38.61Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in the controversial field of transplant surgery should... -
The Madness: A Farewell to War by Fergal Keane
RRP: $42.90$28.43As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and many more. Driven by an irresistible compulsion to be where the night is... -
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 9781529920796
RRP: $21.43$15.15A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor.'A book that will stay with you for life'NATALIE HAYNES'The best book about multiple sclerosis'THE TIMESWe all have... -
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson 9780310546511
RRP: $29.23$17.55Gifted Hands by and about Ben Carson, M.D., is the inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation, who, at age thirty-three, became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Gifted Hands will... -
The World I Fell Out Of by Melanie Reid
RRP: $33.13$18.27The Sunday Times Bestseller From the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoir 'It's beautiful - full of love and light... -
Doctors Get Cancer Too: A Doctor's Diary of Life and Recovery From Cancer by Doctor Dr Philippa Kaye
RRP: $17.53$11.45"It's cancer."Dr Philippa Kaye was 39 years old when she heard those dreaded words. The diagnosis of bowel cancer would change her life and mean crossing the divide from being a doctor to being a patient. She soon discovered that her years of training... -
The Gift of Pain: Why We Hurt and What We Can Do About It by Paul Brand
RRP: $25.33$21.35Pain is not something that most of us would count as a blessing; however, renowned surgeon Dr. Paul Brand and award-winning writer Philip Yancey shed fresh light on the purpose of our pain.Wouldn't it be nice to never experience pain or never have to... -
Secrets of the Human Body by Dr. Chris van Tulleken
RRP: $21.43$14.14206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think you know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises. What makes tears of joy different from tears of sadness? Why is... -
Lead Successful Projects by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
RRP: $21.43$15.15Are you struggling to juggle multiple projects? Do you often lose control of your budget? Does communicating your progress to the rest of your team cause you undue stress? Project management is an essential skill for anyone who needs to get things done... -
Tales of a Midwife by Maria Anderson 9780755362745 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$3.84Maria Anderson trained as an NHS nurse and went on to become a midwife, a job she has adored for over twenty years.After fainting whilst attending her first three births, Maria went from nervous trainee to assured midwife and in her brilliant memoir she... -
Tales of a Midwife by Maria Anderson
RRP: $21.43$12.62Maria Anderson trained as an NHS nurse and went on to become a midwife, a job she has adored for over twenty years.After fainting whilst attending her first three births, Maria went from nervous trainee to assured midwife and in her brilliant memoir she... -
The Edinburgh Seven: The Story of the First Women to Study Medicine by Janey Jones 9781399099233
RRP: $39.00$27.87Women have healed since the beginning of time, but accessing a formal degree in medicine was impossible for them in Britain until the late 19th century. In 1869, a group of women began arriving in Edinburgh to study at the medical faculty, led by the... -
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $17.53$11.86A Sunday Times Book of The YearA Mail on Sunday Book of The YearAn Independent Book of The YearA The Times Book of The YearDuring the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in... -
Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness by Ben Watt
RRP: $25.33$17.73________________________ THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MEMOIR OF BEN WATT'S BATTLE WITH A RARE ILLNESS ________________________ 'Intensely moving' - Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph 'Quiet elegance and ringing epiphanic lyricism... a nearly flawless... -
God in the ICU: Suddenly things happened that he never could have imagined by Dave a Walker 9781466440319
RRP: $23.40$18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466440319Author Dave a WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
Never Work with Animals by Gareth Steel
RRP: $17.53$11.74Imagine going from neurologist to dermatologist, orthopaedic surgeon to obstetrician, assassin to saviour - all in one day. Welcome to the extraordinary world of veterinary medicine... In Never Work with Animals, vet Gareth Steel shares the... -
The Cure for Good Intentions by Sophie Harrison
RRP: $33.13$18.68'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What made you do that? I couldn't find a short answer. Sometimes I said, "I had a revelation on a beach." It was partly true'The... -
Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor by Dr Malcolm Alexander 9781789292367 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$4.64'Malcolm Alexander is to GPs what James Herriot is to vets' - MATT GAW_____________________'An ode to island life in all its glorious foibles' - THE HERALD _____________________'A fascinating, funny and utterly heart-warming family adventure.' - RUTH... -
Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor by Dr Malcolm Alexander
RRP: $19.48$13.36'Malcolm Alexander is to GPs what James Herriot is to vets' - MATT GAW_____________________'An ode to island life in all its glorious foibles' - THE HERALD _____________________'A fascinating, funny and utterly heart-warming family adventure.' - RUTH...