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Three Minutes for a Dog
My Life in an Iron Lung
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Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander’s life is a saga that started in 1946 and has been profoundly...
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Living With Cancer
A Few Things Your Friends Want You to Know
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After happily achieving many of my personal and professional childhood dreams, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with terminal cancer while pregnant with my 3rd daughter at the age of 36. In this book I write about my lived experience since that time...
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Eleven Days in Kyiv
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Eleven Days in Kyiv describes Dr. Ab Chudley’s personal experiences as a Children of Chernobyl Project medical exchange professor in Kyiv, Ukraine. The visit occurred only one year after Ukraine celebrated its first anniversary after gaining its...
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Death Calls
A Coroner’s Memoir
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I wade waist-deep into the ocean to reach a body floating face down in the local harbor. Police, first responders, and onlookers quietly watch from the shoreline, but blood splotches and marks in the sand suggest that something awful has happened...
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With Hope in My Heart
Musings of a Spirited Psychiatrist
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Rarely do we see inside the life and mind of a psychiatrist, but that’s exactly what we get in With Hope in My Heart: Musings of a Spirited Psychiatrist. With candor and openness, author François Mai shares how and why he ventured into...
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Reminiscences
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This book, appropriately called Reminiscences, describes many of my most important memories that I have, largely focussing on my professional life in Science. It is meant to be read primarily by my "offspring" and perhaps a few others who might...
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Saving the Art of Medicine
Observations of a Practitioner
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In his deeply thoughtful book, Dr. Sussman provides an expansive view of the field and all that being a healer entails. Sharing stories from his training as well as practice, drawing on data from a wealth of studies, and including a nuanced...
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Grab the Spark
How My Parkinson's Journey Sparked My Creativity Through Stories, Poems and Photos
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Joe W. van Koeverden, MBA, PwP, has lived with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) for ten years. For the last twenty years, he worked in senior management as a CEO, president, and CAO. He’s twenty years cancer free and has been clean and sober for over...
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Contagion Chaser
The Story of an Infectious Disease Detective
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Picking up where his previous book, Rescues from the Sky, left off, Contagion Chaser details Dr. Lee F. Walters’ transition from saving lives at sea as part of an air medical rescue team with the US Coast Guard to becoming an infectious disease...
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Nevertheless She Persisted
What to Expect When You're Not Expecting Cancer
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Nevertheless She Persisted is an engaging collection of Christa’s blog writing while managing life with cancer. Honest and heartfelt, she recounts her emotional and physical journey from the time of diagnosis and offers extremely valuable social...
