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Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
epub |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:Oliver Sacks

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Mendeleev’s Garden In 1945 the Science Museum in South Kensington reopened (it had been closed for much of the war), and I first saw the giant periodic table ...
( Category: Medical December 8,2014 )
My Beautiful Genome by Lone Frank
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Lone Frank

I’M THINKING ABOUT depression on the train from Washington, DC, to Richmond, Virginia. I’m on my way to meet Kenneth Kendler, who has been a psychiatric epidemiologist and a professor ...
( Category: Medical November 24,2014 )
Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Bobbie Ann Mason [Mason, Bobbie Ann]

Meanwhile, at home, my mother wrote me about the garden and the weather and broken machinery. She wrote, “You told about reading about that guy that built a cabin at ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
Doctored by Sandeep Jauhar
epub |eng | | Author:Sandeep Jauhar

EIGHT Pact Go after exactly what you want, not what you want. For you never get anything but the things that you exactly wanted. —Alan Gregg, twentieth-century physician Amir Chaudhry’s ...
( Category: Medical November 18,2014 )
Second Suns : Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives (9780679603566) by Relin David Oliver
mobi |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Relin, David Oliver [Relin, David Oliver]

“Fourteen–seven, Geoff, isn’t it?” “If you say so,” Tabin said, hands on his knees, laboring to draw a full breath. This pre-breakfast match was played, mercifully, without spectators, except for ...
( Category: Medical November 17,2014 )
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole by Ropper Allan Burrell Brian David
epub |eng | | Author:Ropper, Allan, Burrell, Brian David

7. THE BRAIN MAKES POETRY In those days, medical students tended to be down on neurology. They called it a masturbatory specialty. You couldn’t do much of anything in the ...
( Category: Neurology November 14,2014 )
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Naoki Higashida

Q34 DO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF TIME? Time is a continuous thing with no clear boundaries, which is why it’s so confusing for people with autism. Perhaps you’re puzzled ...
( Category: Autism & Asperger's Syndrome November 13,2014 )
The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head by Gary Small
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Gary Small

CHAPTER NINE Eyes Wide Shut Winter 1989 JASON RILEY WALKED INTO MY OFFICE at exactly 2:00 P.M. Wearing a button-down shirt, striped tie, and gray slacks, he looked more like ...
( Category: Psychiatry November 11,2014 )
Farewell To The East End by Worth Jennifer
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Worth, Jennifer [Worth, Jennifer]

THE MASTER And there she lulled me asleep And there I dreamed – Ah! Woe betide! – The latest dream I ever dreamt On the cold hill side. ‘La Belle ...
( Category: Women November 6,2014 )
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-26 | Author:Bill Hayes [Hayes, Bill]

The topmost takes its name, as tendons tend to, from the muscle from which it emerges, the flexor digitorum superficialis, located way up in the forearm. This muscle also has ...
( Category: Anatomy November 1,2014 )
House on Fire by William H. Foege
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:William H. Foege

Map 2. Northern India TRAINING THE TEAMS By October, the smallpox leadership team had organized the first searches in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and West Bengal. That matter-of-fact statement disguises an ...
( Category: Infectious Disease October 31,2014 )
Bryson City Tales by Walt Larimore MD
epub |eng | | Author:Walt Larimore, MD

chapter nineteen MY FIRST HOME VICTORY Friday finally arrived. Tonight would be my first football game as a team physician in private practice. Gary Ayers’s morning news was basically all ...
( Category: Medical October 16,2014 )
The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West by Enss Chris
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Enss, Chris [Enss, Chris]

ONE TIME HELPING TO DELIVER A CHILD LED PATTY BARTLETT SESSIONS TO PURSUE A MEDICAL PROFESSION. On Sunday, September 26, 1847, Patty assisted in the birth of the first male ...
( Category: Women October 16,2014 )
Bryson City Secrets: Even More Tales of a Small-Town Doctor in the Smoky Mountains by Walt Larimore MD
epub |eng | | Author:Walt Larimore, MD

chapter nineteen MAKIN’ MOONSHINE The Mountain View Manor Nursing Home was located on the top of a rather large hill not far from the city limits of Bryson City. As ...
( Category: Instruments & Supplies October 16,2014 )
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy by Geralyn Lucas
epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Geralyn Lucas [Lucas, Geralyn]

11 18-Hour Support Bra The first thing I think when I wake up after my implant surgery is that I have a newfound respect for strippers. This hurts soooo much. ...
( Category: Breast Cancer October 16,2014 )

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