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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Atul Gawande 9781861976574
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between... -
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande 9780312427658
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427658Author Atul GawandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint < -
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.73THE GAME-CHANGING BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BEING MORTAL Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled... -
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Atul Gawande 9781846681325
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $10.24This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.There... -
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250076229Author Atul GawandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint < -
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande 9780312421700
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421700Author GawandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint -
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 9780805095159
RRP: $44.21Booksplease Price: $18.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New England Book Award (Nonfiction) 2015 and Books for a Better Life (Wellness) 2015 and Indies Choice Book... -
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande 9780805091748
RRP: $46.89Booksplease Price: $27.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805091748Author Atul GawandePage Count 224Imprint -
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande 9780312430009
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Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 9781846685828 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $6.78AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ' THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'GAWANDE'S MOST POWERFUL, AND MOVING, BOOK' MALCOLM GLADWELL 'BEING MORTAL IS NOT ONLY WISE AND DEEPLY MOVING; IT IS AN... -
Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death by Adrian Owen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.85In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, somewhere between life and death, which they called the Grey Zone. The people who inhabit it... -
Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death by Adrian Owen 9781783350988 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.59In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, a twilight zone somewhere between life and death. They called this the Grey Zone. The people... -
Snowball in a Blizzard: The Tricky Problem of Uncertainty in Medicine by Steven Hatch 9781782399896
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80According to a wry saying among radiologists, finding a tumour in a mammogram is like finding a snowball in a blizzard. Up to thirty percent of breast-cancer diagnoses are given to those who have no... -
Message to My Girl: A Dying Father's Powerful Legacy of Hope by Jared Noel 9781877505546
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08With only six weeks to live, Dr Jared Noel took on the most ambitious project of his short but significant life - to document what it was like to die, and to record his final reflections on where a... -
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.17A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one... -
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich 9781786498892 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.22A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one... -
The Human Body in Minutes Tom Jackson 9781786481238
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A concise and illuminating tour of the human body - learn about how our bodies work and why they work the way they do, in minutes. From the basic unit of the cell, through the tissues and organs that... -
Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing by Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan 9781398718708
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41LONGLISTED FOR THE BREAD & ROSES AWARDHave you ever felt unheard by your doctor? Been frustrated that they haven't understood your symptoms, that they have neglected your concerns?When Dr Rageshri... -
Doctor You: Revealing the science of self-healing Jeremy Howick 9781473654228
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.11'Read this breakthrough book!' Deepak ChopraThrow away your statins, painkillers and antidepressants and pick up this book to find out how you can harness the body's natural powers to heal itself... -
A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Colin Grant
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92One day Colin Grant's teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor. None of their lives were ever the same again... -
The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and How Modern Medicine Has Gone Too Far Suzanne O’Sullivan 9781399727648
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77'She is in my view the best science writer around' SATHNAM SANGHERAWe live in an age of diagnosis: from autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions... -
When Breath Becomes Air: THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER by Paul Kalanithi
Booksplease Price: $11.60**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on... -
Well: Healing Our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa by Sarah Thebarge
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.23When Sarah applied to the Yale physicians assistant program and the admissions panel asked why they should admit her, she replied, "Because I'm going to change the world some day." After more than a... -
The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and How Modern Medicine Has Gone Too Far by Suzanne O’Sullivan 9781399727655
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.24'She is in my view the best science writer around' SATHNAM SANGHERAWe live in an age of diagnosis: from autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions... -
The Brain in Minutes by Rita Carter
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The brain is considered the most complex structure in all of creation. But recent discoveries in neuroscience are now revealing the inner secrets of the brain - how it works, why it makes us who we... -
Everyman by Philip Roth
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.03Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionEveryman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose... -
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri 9781472131331
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83'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... -
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.38The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science,... -
Brain and Heart: The Triumphs and Struggles of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon David I Sandberg 9781639368938
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10A warm and brilliant memoir that captures the medical and emotional intensity of pediatric neurosurgery.In this moving, unflinching, and inspiring book, Dr. David Sandberg, an internationally... -
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection by Vivek H Murthy 9781788162784
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58President Obama's and President Biden's appointment as US Surgeon General 'The most important book you'll read this year' Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive 'Fascinating, moving and essential... -
Night Theatre by Vikram Paralkar
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09'Morbid, and yet, you can't help but laugh.. refreshing, seductive and magical. If this book wasn't already on your radar, it needs to be.' Oyinkan Braithwaite 'I read this book in a single... -
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Allan Ropper 9781782395508 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $4.07What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the life-altering... -
Gattefosse's Aromatherapy by Rene-Maurice Gattefosse
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07Here is the missing link in Essential Oil literature, the first modern work written by the man who coined the word 'Aromatherapy.'In July 1910 Rene- Maurice Gattefosse discovered the healing... -
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic by Dr Roopa Farooki
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN 'BRILLIANT' OBSERVER 'POWERFUL AND... -
Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan 9781398718692
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.67Have you ever felt unheard by your doctor? Been frustrated that they haven't understood your symptoms, that they have neglected your concerns?When Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan was admitted to hospital as a... -
Your Heart, My Hands: An Immigrant's Remarkable Journey to Become One of America's Preeminent Cardiac Surgeons by Arun K. Singh MD
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29Leaving a life marked by crippling setbacks and his father's doubt, in 1967 a twenty-something doctor from India arrived in America with only five dollars and the desire to claim his American dream... -
Speaking of Death: What the Bereaved Really Need by Annie Broadbent
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'To support the bereaved, we need to get to grips with death.'Talking about death and grief has become something of a modern taboo. Most of us would rather avoid the subject altogether because it... -
Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance by Matthew Syed 9781473613805 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.52What links the Mercedes Formula One team with Google?What links Team Sky and the aviation industry?What connects James Dyson and David Beckham?They are all Black Box Thinkers.Black Box Thinking is a... -
The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee 9780099516491
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63The Running Sky records a lifetime of looking at birds. Begining in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with crepuscular nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England,... -
A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Colin Grant 9780099597872 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.65One day Colin Grant's teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor. None of their lives were ever the same again...