Lyme disease brought a once vibrant Michelle Slater to the point of considering assisted suicide. Lyme disease is a crippling autoimmune disorder. It causes chronic fatigue, arm and leg pain, headaches, brain fog, etc. Her last ray of hope was an article on the internet...

Two More Years is a memoir by EC Stilson that details her journey as she battles cancer and learns to live again. Elisa Stilson was married to Mike and had four kids already when she was diagnosed with stage four melanoma. After many bad diagnoses...

Some experiences are worth retelling, especially if they are significant and profound, like those that Arlene Santos McCain MD recounts in her book Embrace Grace: New Medicine for a Wounded World. In this book, the author narrates her life story, the founding and development of...

Sidelined: How Women Manage and Mismanage Their Health by Susan Salenger is a thought-provoking and informative guide for women. The book goes into how women are the primary force to manage their health and the health of their families, but at the same time, many...

Primary care providers hope to inform their patients, and many patients have erroneous theories regarding vaccine side effects. Social media worsens the spread of misinformation. Let's Talk Vaccines: A Clinician's Guide to Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy and Saving Lives was compiled by Dr. Gretchen LaSalle MD...

There are lots of things about life that we do not know, but we do know that life is not all black-and-white. No one knows this better than Katie Weber, who obviously lives in the gray. In her book, Living in the Gray, Katie explains...

After being diagnosed with a rare illness called Myxopapillary Ependymoma (MEPN) in 2021, A.H. Nazzareno started writing a tell-all memoir following major surgery, recounting his past experiences with the "villains" who did a number on his back. Nazzareno recalls how he met his future wife,...

The importance of the health care industry was made more apparent by the Covid-19 pandemic, which sent an overwhelming number of unfortunate patients to hospitals and pushed our heroes in uniforms into desperate situations. When Craig C. Durie started writing a book about palliative medicine...

Chris Lengle introduces The Male Nurse Survival Guide as “a real, no-b[…]-s[…] survival guide” (elisions my own) to the world of nursing. As he notes, “[t]his is the raw, real, and uncensored guide to surviving as a male nurse” in the United States. As such,...

Dead Man Dancing: A Handbook Of Stroke Survival & Recovery is a work of non-fiction focusing on medical and personal issues. It is intended for the general reading audience and was penned by author D. C. Roberts about his own experiences following a totally debilitating...