Swords and Saints: A Doctor's Journey by Robert Adams, MD is an utterly engaging memoir about the life of an ex-SEAL and Navy commander who decided to enter medical school on an Army scholarship as a career change. While Dr. Adams briefly discusses his prior...

Karen Gedney's 30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor is the true story of a female doctor’s thirty years of service to the United States Corrections System, serving as the prison doctor in a male prison. That she accepted the challenge in the...

In Lally Pia's memoir, The Fortune Teller's Prophecy, Lally, a Ghanaian medical student, faces a critical decision during a military coup. Despite her initial plan to join her family in the U.S., red tape delays her move, and she finds refuge with the Clayden family,...

South Carolina. In his book, Angels In the ER, he shares the many stories he has witnessed. Among the many stories, the reader will discover victims of gunshot wounds, vacationers’ side-tracked by a brain tumor, and those that come in on a regular basis...

Anatomy of a Kidnapping; A Doctor's Story is a perfect title for this book, as its author, Steven L. Berk is a physician who responded to the events of March 6, 2005, with the instincts and skills he had honed in his many years of...

I was surprised and delighted about Dr.Hardman’s take on end of life responses. “If I’m elderly or terminally ill, let me die in peace and dignity . . . please. And if I’m in pain or having trouble breathing, I want to be given morphine...

Spirit Immortal by Samuel Scime is a provocative book about one man's quest to find the human soul. The author is a ophthalmologist who believes he witnessed the soul entering the body of a baby at birth. He also recalls seeing what he believed to...

Walking into a facility where the doors are outside of your control, where you’re locked in small hallways with no way out, where your every move is viewed and recorded can be a terrifying experience. It’s all in a day’s work when you’re in a...

Warrior Patient by Temple Williams is a true story about one man's struggle to survive a series of medical problems over the space of three years. It's a witty story full of unexpected humor, which is sometimes deadpan and sometimes cheerful. The aim of this...

The Vitamin Solution by doctors and co-authors Arielle Levitan and Romy Block is fantastic! How can yet another book on vitamins be “fantastic”? Aren’t there hundreds of books on that subject, and with all the information now readily available on the net, why would The...

Moving Beyond The Unspoken Grief by Sarah Lnyy is an autobiographical account of one doctor’s journey of IVF and everything it involves toward having a child. The book begins with an introduction to Sarah, who is a medical doctor herself, and her experiences in medical...

College Mania (Is a University the New Doctor?) by Joshua Flapan is a non-fiction educational book that would appeal most to a mixed audience of students considering college, parents with kids considering college, and those in college. This book focuses on the different elements involved...

Warrior Patient Heartbeats by Temple Emmet Williams is a book that I can’t find enough words to praise. It is so timely and pertinent, packed with wisdom and knowledge while offering entertainment to readers. In this book, the author shares his journey to healing from...

Healthcare 911 by Bhupendra O. Khatri MD, FAAN provides a unique glimpse into the US healthcare system and the damage caused to patients and doctors alike. Physicians tell their personal stories about a working environment which has the highest rates of suicide of any profession....

A Last Chapter of the Greatest Generation is a work of non-fiction focused on the military life and subsequent career of Frederic A. Stone and was penned by author Judson I Stone. Subtitled ‘The Life and Family of Colonel Frederic A. Stone, M.D. Author, Doctor,...

The Surrogate is a work of medical thriller fiction subtitled “When the Promise of IVF Goes Terribly Wrong”, and was penned by author Dimitri Markov. The second volume in the Dangerous Doctors series, the book is recommended for adults due to its highly graphic content,...

Lose Weight? Exercise More? I Don’t Think So! by Kristen Carter could well be the refrain from all of us when faced with the doctor’s inevitable advice. The purpose of this book is to demystify that famous advice from doctors the world over – “you...

The Mysteries of Healing: Dialogues with Doctors and Scientists by Gayle Kimball, Ph.D. is an insightful and thought-provoking book that throws light on human consciousness, healing energy, and free will based on the research by 19 leading scientists. The book gives glimpses of other dimensions...

Bloodletting and Germs: A Doctor in Nineteenth-Century Rural New York by Thomas Rosenthal is a historical novel that explores strong medical themes and the work of Dr. Jabez Allen, a setting that is at the turning point in medical history. Dr. Allen is not particularly...

In 1976 Keith, a Vietnam veteran, and his wife Judy, a celebrated runner, were given the devastating news that their two-year-old son Aaron had leukemia. They both refused to give up on Aaron or believe the horrifying prognosis that his little body would eventually succumb...