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The fish-out-of-water stories of Northern Exposure and Doc Martin meet the rough-and-rugged setting of the Discovery Channel's Alaskan Bush People in Thomas J. Sims's On Call in the Arctic, where the author relates his incredible experience saving lives in one of the most remote outposts in North America.
Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world's...
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Le récit passionnant d'un étrange guérisseur du XVIIIe siècle...
Le Mège peut être considéré comme LE grand livre de Jean-Paul Pellaton. Un mège, en français archaïque, est un médecin généraliste de type ambulant, à demi autodidacte, généralement amateur de plantes, un peu alchimiste pour ne pas dire sorcier, rebouteux ou guérisseur, plutt que médecin. Xavier Meuret de Miécourt est un mège. Fils de menuisier, promis à l'établi,...
3) Wild Heart
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For Dr. Stacey Marie Kerr, a road is only worth traveling if it comes with some unexpected turns. In her midfifties, Dr. Stacey Kerr was diagnosed with osteoporosis and told to play it safe. Instead, she bought her first Harley. Over the next fourteen years, Stacey and her two best friends decided to give the finger to aging gracefully, ultimately embarking on seven epic motorcycle tours throughout the western United States filled with drama, introspection,...
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Whitey's Kid is an autobiographical memoir of Dr. Bernard (aka "Bernie") Koire (1928 - 2018), the son of a notorious Jewish gangster, decorated Korean War veteran, and one of the pioneering plastic surgeons of Beverly Hills.
Bernie grew up in Kensington, Pennsylvania-up the Delaware River from Philadelphia. It was a 200-year-old immigrant entry point and then a failed industrial ghetto for the Irish, Polish, Italians, and Jews. The streets were mean-instructive...
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Have you run out of motivation to keep fighting the ongoing battle against diabetes?
In Adventure On, Erin Spineto focuses on the pillars of diabetes adventure, why adventure works to lighten the burden of diabetes care, and why it's critical that you get the motivational aspect of your diabetes care handled right now.
Completing hundreds of miles of adventures, from swimming around an island to sailing solo, Erin Spineto shares how she went from...
6) Mes vies
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Par cet ouvrage, Daniel Labadie retrace deux vies qui se sont succédées et ont fini par se confondre. C'est un témoignage de sa volonté de faire à nouveau partie du monde des vivants après un terrible accident. Scientifique de formation, il a toujours aimé mettre des mots sur son existence et plus encore depuis ce tragique événement. Mes vies est une sorte de thérapie, la dernière étape de sa reconstruction physique et psychologique.
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Mark White was the bubonic plague epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when his wife left him and took the kids to the East Coast. He moved to New York City to be near them and got a job as the hospital epidemiologist at Booth Memorial Medical Center (now the New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital).
Soon he and his nurse epidemiologists faced cases of Acquired Immune Syndrome and a hospital-wide anti-freeze poisoning in...
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Un voyage avec les « cow boys » de la virologie au cœur des zones tropicales et des virus qui y circulent et qui émergeront demain sous nos latitudes.
Les épidémies, l'étude des virus, ont fait l'objet de nombreux ouvrages. L'originalité de ce livre est d'amener le lecteur au fin fond des savanes africaines à la poursuite des virus les plus dangereux du monde (Ebola, fièvre jaune, Lassa). Un livre autobiographique
qui retrace la chasse...
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Chitokoloki Mission Hospital is a remote but remarkable facility in the North-Western Province of Zambia. This book comes from a compilation of daily reports about life in a remote African mission hospital. It is written from a personal and clinical angle and with a surgical emphasis because that formed the bulk of the activity that has been recorded. The detailed experiences of many patients has been captured and the author conveys the almost unbelievable...
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In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains, Dr. Stephen Fabes's six year journey around the world by bicycle will challenge our concepts of medicine and health.
Spanning six years, seventy-five countries, six continents, and 53,568 miles, cyclist and doctor Stephen Fabes has experienced a world made massive by his bicycle. His invigorating debut book is part-travel narrative, part-medical memoir and is enriched with personal insight into his...
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Épilepsie, et p'is les psys s'articule autour de la frayeur constante chevillée au cerveau d'Eric Lamy, l'auteur. Souffrant d'une épilepsie fronto-temporale, il y retrace quarante années de sa vie, de la toute première manifestation bizarre au geste chirurgical salvateur. De Florence à Marseille, de Besançon à Cologne, de Montreux à Paris, de Baltimore à Lyon, de Tampa à Genève et de Grenoble à Jérusalem, vous êtes invités à le suivre...
13) Prêt au combat
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Une première grossesse, rien d'extraordinaire, me direz-vous. Malheureusement, en quelques secondes, tout peut basculer dans l'horreur. Cet ouvrage est donc le journal de bord, la bouée de sauvetage d'Alicia Lambert. À travers ce témoignage, elle décrit ses journées rythmées par le bruit des machines et les nombreux ascenseurs émotionnels dus à la prématurité de son minuscule guerrier.
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La magia de lo real es un libro de aventuras, biográfico y de crecimiento personal en el que encontraras ejemplos de superación para todos los gustos, entre ellos las victorias sobre la enfermedad y el dolor. Batallas que Eduardo Lurueña afronta con la fuerza mental como la mejor de sus armas: arma que le sirvió para que se impusiera al dolor de su mano rota, la cual tenía que utilizar para seguir golpeando un saco de boxeo durante cinco días,...
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A marine biologist's adventurous life as a professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska's magnificent yet unforgiving waters.
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Outdoor sports enthusiast and extreme doctor Emmanuel Cauchy reveals here for the first time the perilous rescues he's performed in the world's most terrifying and unforgiving mountain climates. Known around the world as the "vertical doctor," Emmanuel Cauchy gives stunning and terrifying accounts of his days as a rescue doctor on Mont Blanc, which rises more than 11,000 feet in the Alps along the French-Italian border. From snowy mountain peaks and...
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