Surgery

A surgeon's protocol that challenges conventional orthopedic practices to help you heal pain naturally while avoiding surgery—or recover faster from a necessary procedure.

The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, survived the Australian detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon....

Dr. Frederick R. Appelbaum tells a sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery....

Tumors, injuries, ruptured vascular malformations—there is almost no such thing as a non-urgent brain surgery when it comes to kids....

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....

Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery....

Neurobiology is a notoriously difficult subject, but Neurobiology For Dummies explains the essentials in terms anyone can understand. In this updated edition, fresh examples highlight the latest research, so you'll be prepared with a current understanding of the science.

The Roux-nn-Y gastric bypass surgery, or RNY, can be your weight loss solution after years of struggling with obesity....

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....

Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular success at Cairo University, to his long and distinguished career in Britain....

Between eating “healthy” and spending hours sweating in the gym, getting the scale to go down even a tiny bit takes loads of effort and patience. But imagine if you lost up to 70 percent of your excess weight in just one year. That’s the power of bariatric surgery....

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

At the start of his second year at Harvard, Martin was hit by a car and thrown 150 feet. He landed on his head, suffering severe traumatic brain injury....

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....

Sixty percent of individuals over the age of 20 - or 58 million people in the US - are overweight. As the obesity epidemic continues to grow, many Americans are researching the benefits and complications of weight-loss surgeries....

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

G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story...

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. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions at age 33.

Dr. Mütter's Marvels interweaves an eye-opening portrait of 19th-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the "P. T. Barnum of the surgery room"....

Discover the importance of a well-structured gallbladder removal diet in your recovery journey.

In this absorbing narrative, Dr. Chris Honey, an accomplished neurosurgeon at Vancouver General Hospital, weaves his personal journey together with case studies that reflect the thrill of scientific discovery and the limitations of medicine....

Dr. Kudsi, an experienced double-board-certified bariatric surgeon, wrote this book to help people like you. It's full of answers to questions about sleeve gastrectomy surgery. With a mix of facts and some humor, he makes sure you learn in a fun way....

Never afraid to try something new, Alexandra has done the hard work for you. She has first-hand experience of every single strategy described in her book, detailing the ins and outs and giving a brutally honest overview to help you decide....