Synopsis When Alan Wright learns his ex-wife Andrea leapt to her death only hours after getting remarried to a man he hates, he’s heartbroken. When he receives a package in the mail two days after her death, filled with the documents she’d used to plan that wedding, he’s hurt and angry. And when he […]
Synopsis Today we see crime, abuse, alcoholism, drugs, anger, and anxiety everywhere. Jails and prisons are crammed on an industrial scale. Recovery centers are packed with patients. Extreme political and religious groups regularly trap more members. Too many schools are simply factories for dropouts. All of this is the result of unresolved […]
Synopsis When Allison began to care for her mother with Alzheimer’s, she started to ask some difficult questions. At what point is a life no longer worth living? Would dementia be in her future too? Worried that her mother’s fate may be her own, Allison comes up with an unusual approach to […]
Synopsis In the shadows of New York City’s North Brother Island stand the remains of a shuttered hospital and the haunting memories of quarantines and human experiments. The ruins conceal the scarred and beautiful Cora, imprisoned there by contagions and the doctors who torment her. When Finn, a young urban explorer, arrives […]
Synopsis Plastic surgeon Lou Edwards’s life is complicated by two major issues. One, his wife has lupus, possibly due to leaking silicone from breast implants Edwards himself inserted. And two, his malpractice insurance has been canceled, as it has been for many other plastic surgeons, due to the burgeoning breast implant problem. […]
Synopsis It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O’Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is […]
Synopsis Doc Brady became an orthopedic surgeon to avoid being surrounded by death. But now it’s everywhere around him. One spring day in 1994 Houston, Dr. Jim Bob Brady witnesses his neighbor’s ten-year-old son killed by a hit-and-run driver. An accident, or an act of murder? After the death, Brady enlists the […]
Dr. Arthur Spohn: Surgeon, Inventor, and Texas Medical Pioneer by Jane Clements Monday & Frances Brannen Vick Genre: Non-Fiction / Medical / Texas History / Biography Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Publication Date: September 12, 2018 Number of Pages: 352 pages. 78 b&w photos. Map. 4 Appendices. Index In this first comprehensive biography of Dr. Arthur Edward Spohn, […]
HURT The Inspiring, Untold Story of Trauma Care by Catherine Musemeche, M.D. Genre: Medicine / Medical History Date of Publication: September 6, 2016 Publisher: ForeEdge # of pages: 268 The heroic story of the invention of trauma care, from battlefield triage to level 1 trauma centers Trauma is a disease of epidemic proportions that preys on […]
Title: The Hidden Truth Behind Beautiful Smiles Author: Zack Zaibak Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 152 Genre: Medical/Dentistry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON We are often judged by how we look, and the first thing people notice is a smile. In The Hidden Truth Behind Beautiful Smiles, author Dr. Zack Zaibak tells how modern cosmetic dentistry can transform ordinary smiles […]