Professionals & Academics

Surviving a surgical internship...even if the patients don't
Surviving a surgical internship...even if the patients don't

Review:There are many enjoyable anecdotes in this book, many laugh out loud stories! I highly recommend this book! However, doctors who actually survived their own surgical internships may not want to relive the experience. Read more

The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly - A Physician's First Year
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly - A Physician's First Year

Review:This book is just fabulous. An easy, breezy, can't put it down, fun to read, heart stopping, life or death, happy and sad, drama filled ride. LOVED it. I just thoroughly enjoyed Matt's writing style. Can't imagine how awesome his bedside manner might be. Hope he writes more very soon! Read more

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - A Memoir of Life in Death
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - A Memoir of Life in Death

Review:In short poignant chapters, Bauby puts out all of his inner feelings without seeking self pity .He is transparent,vulnerable and his mind still shows it is full of life and a greater capacity for love..Truly inspirational Read more

My Life: Based on the Book Gifted Hands
My Life: Based on the Book Gifted Hands

Review:THe book is yet another wonderful publication to be handed out to new and future Ben Carson admirers and voters. I am going to order more to pass out to my neighbors, several of which are highly educated black families. I also am going to show the 2 CD films of Dr Carson. I will wait after the Iowa vote, where I am hoping and believe that Dr Carson's vote tallies will come in very high.

Then when Dr Carson's name comes to the forefront, new voters will be more curious about him, and t... Read more

A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson
A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson

Review:We just got the book yesterday and we have already read it all the way through! It is a great story of a life well lived and you can't put the book down once you get started. It is a great insight into an already great view from the outside of a family that cares deeply about the direction our nation is going. We will be watching to see the outcome of the coming election events and we are hopeful that a man of this character will go in to the White House. It is a very refreshing and in some ... Read more

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

Review:This was painful to read. Did Berg have to detail every single moment of Perkins existence? Akin to reading boring daily Facebook posts detailing someone's every move. I hope the movie is able to extract the good parts and edit it to something interesting. Read more

Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story

Review:Dame Sheldrick has had an amazing life, no doubt. However, being a patron of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and an elephant fosterer, I was looking forward to a story about her relationship with elephants and how she hit on the formula that finally enabled her to keep these precious orphans alive. That and pretty much everything else in this autobiography are glossed over and dealt with at a very shallow level. I was left feeling unsatisfied. I wanted more detail. This book is worth rea... Read more

The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)

Review:I very much enjoyed this entertaining and delightful collection of lectures, talks and essays by the world-renown and sorely missed Professor Feynman, Nobel Prize winning physicist, idiosyncratic genius and one of the great men of the twentieth century.

I particularly enjoyed the subtle yet unmistakable way he scolded the people at NASA for putting their political butts before the safety of the space program they were managing in his famous "Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger... Read more

Further Adventures of a Curious Character - What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Further Adventures of a Curious Character - What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Review:Richard Feynman must have been a very interesting fellow! Too bad we all didn't get a chance to have a conversation with him in person. However, reading his books is the next best thing...he writes like he's in your living room. Read more

Black Like Me: 50th Anniversary Edition
Black Like Me: 50th Anniversary Edition

Review:I recalled this title recently from my high school years of many decades ago. In the current time, it was as powerful now as I recalled it to be. Truly a gut-wrenching classic on experiencing unethical discrimination. Read more

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