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Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brains create them? Your Brain, Explained is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in how your brain works and explains the latest research on the brain ... more >
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As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in ... more >
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In State of the Heart, Dr. Haider Warraich takes readers inside the ER, inside patients’ rooms, and inside the history and science of cardiac disease. State of the Heart traces the entire arc of the heart, from the very first time it was depicted on stone tablets, to a future ... more >
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Recently I reviewed “When Death Becomes Life” in which a transplant surgeon talks about his job and the history of organ donation. Despite the title, transplants are also procured from living donors and here’s a wonderful story. Single Dad Gets Kidney – Last year a total stranger offered a kidney ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsDoctor / medical research / medicine / non-fictionComments Off on REVIEW: When Death Becomes Life by Joshua D. Mezrich
A gifted surgeon illuminates one of the most profound, awe-inspiring, and deeply affecting achievements of modern day medicine—the movement of organs between bodies—in this exceptional work of death and life that takes its place besides Atul Gawande’s Complications, Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies, and Jerome Groopman’s How Doctors ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsautobiography / Doctor / medicine / non-fiction / travelComments Off on REVIEW: Holiday SOS by Ben MacFarlane
Who do you call if it all goes wrong on holiday? Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane – a very modern flying doctor. His job is get on a plane and bring patients home after holiday disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing incidents on business trips and all the other things that can ... more >
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