Surgery

The Zero to Finals Surgery book is the fourth in the Zero to Finals series, aimed at providing key learning material for students. The books are designed to be studied from beginning to end in preparation for your exams....

With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain and more....

Forty years of research has shown that patients who are psychologically prepared for surgery have vastly improved outcomes. It has all been shown that self-hypnosis, when used in addition to anesthesia, can decrease anxiety and pain and hasten healing....

An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons, with some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he's worked on....

For years Dr Rahul Jandial has transformed the lives of his neurosurgery patients by putting them through 'brain rehab', his specially developed boot camp for restoring brain function....

Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the witty history of the past, present and future of surgery....

Historian Lindsey Fitzharris re-creates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to a safe, vaunted profession....

This 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....

Having spent his childhood in the backstreets of a northern steel town, he went on to become one of the world's foremost heart surgeons....

In this thrilling and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency training and early practice....

An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession’s most eminent figures....

We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world. But transplant surgery is as ancient as the pyramids, with a history more surprising than we might expect....

This best-selling book reveals the extraordinary life of Dr. Ben Carson - from inner-city kid to renowned neurosurgeon....

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

Killer Looks is the definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and other physical alterations to prisoners, the idea being that by remodeling the face you remake the man....

What does Multiple Sclerosis mean and how do you handle it? Multiрlе ѕсlеrоѕiѕ is a сhrоniс illness оf thе сеntrаl nеrvоuѕ ѕуѕtеm which affесtѕ thе bоdу'ѕ dеfеnѕе ѕуѕtеm. You might know this already, so without beating around the bush, we are looking for answers and solutions....

Weight loss surgery is a big deal, but it is only an early step in your weight loss journey....

When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital....

Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate...

The vertical sleeve gastrectomy, or gastric sleeve, can be your weight loss solution after years of struggling with obesity. Thousands of patients have successfully lost weight and kept it off after vertical sleeve gastrectomy....

The Invention of Surgery explains this dramatic progress and highlights the personalities of the discipline's most dynamic historical figures....

In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care....

Dr. Bernard Nathanson reveals what led a lifelong atheist and abortion crusader first to the pro-life cause, and finally to Christianity....

For millions of people, inflammation is a very real problem that can increase the risk of some dangerous and unpleasant chronic conditions. Left unchecked it can take over your life and leave you in constant pain and suffering....

This audiobook does a fantastic job of explaining what adrenal fatigue is, how it develops, and how it regularly slips into our bodies....