Book Review: Standing Strong: An Unlikely Sisterhood and the Court Case that Made History by Diane Reeve with Jenna Glatzer
Standing Strong is the perfect title for Diane Reeve’s moving memoir about acquiring HIV/AIDS from a long term partner who willfully transmitted the virus to many people. Reeve is still standing despite the devastation of finding out her significant other was cheating...Book Review: The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
Nina Riggs wrote The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying as she was being treated for stage four breast cancer, the kind that’s become only treatable, not curable. During the same time, Nina was saying goodbye to her mother, who had the same disease and...Book Review: The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back by Clark Elliott, PhD
Dr. Clark Elliott’s medical memoir, The Ghost in My Brain, is one of the best I’ve read. Elliott, who is a PhD teaching Artificial Intelligence in Chicago, describes the effects of a concussion like nothing else I’ve seen. To discuss the resulting...Book Review: The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death by John Bateson
Reading John Bateson’s book, The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death, is like reading a very grim tabloid. No gossipy or gory detail is spared, which sometimes felt overwhelming to me. But I like CSI-type shows and this was like binge watching...Book Review: When the Air Hits Your Brain by Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., MD
In When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery, Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., MD tells of his life as a neurosurgeon. Starting with the “grunt work” required of a med student who accidentally starts his clinical experience in neurosurgery, and ending...Book Review: The Family Gene by Joselin Linder
The Family Gene by Joselin Linder is everything I wish for in a medically-oriented memoir. Linder blends the science of genetics deftly with her own family’s story. It was so compelling that I flew through the book in just a day or so. When Joselin is just...Book Review: The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives by Theresa Brown
I read The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients Lives by Theresa Brown, RN as an audiobook. I love listening to memoirs, since it feels like I’m having a long, albeit one-sided, conversation with a new friend. This is a peek into one oncology...Book Review: Lyme Madness by Lori Dennis
Lori Dennis’ impassioned book, Lyme Madness, is the work of an unintentional activist. I picked it up expecting a detailed medical memoir about Dennis’ son Matt’s struggle with Lyme Disease. In fact, I’d guess that barely ten percent of the...Book Review: Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity by Dr. Ronald Epstein, MD
Attending isn’t necessarily a book for everyone, but I appreciated many of the ideas Dr. Epstein puts forth. I think the primary audience is anyone in a health care provider, student, or administration role. However, as a massage therapist and chronic illness...Bookshop.Org Affiliate
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