Compelling Medical Memoirs

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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness 4.09 avg rating — 233,255 ratings
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Danger: I'm A Nurse With A Penis: Funny RN Clinical Diary and Notes
Danger: I'm A Nurse With A Penis: Funny RN Clinical Diary and Notes 4.19 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science 4.28 avg rating — 51,627 ratings
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Beautiful Affliction
Beautiful Affliction 3.86 avg rating — 1,939 ratings
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back 3.95 avg rating — 13,681 ratings
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Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia
Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia 4.43 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Call the Midwife (The Midwife Trilogy, #1)
Call the Midwife (The Midwife Trilogy, #1) 4.19 avg rating — 77,378 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating — 767,184 ratings
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A Kick-Ass Fairy
A Kick-Ass Fairy 4.03 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Prisoners Without Bars: A Caregiver's Tale
Prisoners Without Bars: A Caregiver's Tale 4.43 avg rating — 143 ratings
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How to Do a Liver Transplant: Stories from My Surgical Life
How to Do a Liver Transplant: Stories from My Surgical Life 4.31 avg rating — 220 ratings
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On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
by: Ed Cohen
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope 4.33 avg rating — 7,589 ratings
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story 4.23 avg rating — 12,765 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 284,932 ratings
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Lessons from a CF Cornerman: 38 Lessons I Learned During My Wife's Illness And Lung Transplant
Lessons from a CF Cornerman: 38 Lessons I Learned During My Wife's Illness And Lung Transplant 4.68 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor
Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor 4.15 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Bedpans To Boardrooms (The Nomadic Nurse #2)
Bedpans To Boardrooms (The Nomadic Nurse #2) 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat 4.05 avg rating — 7,624 ratings
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Ooh Matron! (The Nomadic Nurse #1)
Ooh Matron! (The Nomadic Nurse #1) 4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
by: Adam Kay
4.40 avg rating — 316,897 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4.15 avg rating — 20,362 ratings
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Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room
Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room 4.08 avg rating — 779 ratings
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All the Living and the Dead
All the Living and the Dead 4.25 avg rating — 11,721 ratings
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Confessions of a GP
Confessions of a GP 3.71 avg rating — 5,731 ratings
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One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient 4.03 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Emergency!: True Stories from the Nation's ERs
Emergency!: True Stories from the Nation's ERs 3.96 avg rating — 1,341 ratings
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Alex: The Life of a Child
Alex: The Life of a Child 4.42 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
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Blood, Sweat And Tea
Blood, Sweat And Tea 3.85 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story 3.70 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Tell Me Exactly What Happened: Dispatches from 911
Tell Me Exactly What Happened: Dispatches from 911 3.94 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Furiously Happy
Furiously Happy 3.89 avg rating — 171,414 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death 3.98 avg rating — 76,135 ratings
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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole
Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole 3.99 avg rating — 3,877 ratings
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Mortality
Mortality 4.12 avg rating — 29,012 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 87,596 ratings
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In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer
In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer 4.20 avg rating — 760 ratings
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What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey
What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey 3.84 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon 4.29 avg rating — 988 ratings
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The Complete Call the Midwife Stories: True Stories of the East End in the 1950s (The Midwife Trilogy, #1-3)
The Complete Call the Midwife Stories: True Stories of the East End in the 1950s (The Midwife Trilogy, #1-3) 4.47 avg rating — 5,422 ratings
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Trauma Room Two
Trauma Room Two 4.26 avg rating — 4,629 ratings
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The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son 4.10 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope
Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope 4.46 avg rating — 370 ratings
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It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body
It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body
by: Kate Gies
4.71 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Surgeon's Story - Inside OR-1 With One of America's Top Pediatric Surgeons
Surgeon's Story - Inside OR-1 With One of America's Top Pediatric Surgeons 4.50 avg rating — 159 ratings
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You Can't Drive Your Car to Your Own Funeral
You Can't Drive Your Car to Your Own Funeral 4.01 avg rating — 327 ratings
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As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-Doctor
As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-Doctor 3.99 avg rating — 132 ratings
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A Future With Hope
A Future With Hope it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond 4.18 avg rating — 4,788 ratings
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Further Confessions of a GP
Further Confessions of a GP 4.07 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
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Healthcare From The Trenches: An Insider Account of the Complex Barriers of U.S. Healthcare from the Providers and Patients' Perspective
Healthcare From The Trenches: An Insider Account of the Complex Barriers of U.S. Healthcare from the Providers and Patients' Perspective 4.21 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
The Hospital by the River 4.10 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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The Ailing Nation: Lessons From the Bedside for America's Leaders
The Ailing Nation: Lessons From the Bedside for America's Leaders
by: Nate Link
4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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A Nurse's Story: Life, Death and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit
A Nurse's Story: Life, Death and In-Between in an Intensive Care Unit 4.07 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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Heart in the Right Place
Heart in the Right Place 3.90 avg rating — 3,293 ratings
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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir 4.38 avg rating — 4,345 ratings
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And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death 3.73 avg rating — 3,451 ratings
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The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death 3.63 avg rating — 500 ratings
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30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor
30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor 4.28 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife 4.36 avg rating — 6,842 ratings
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No Crying in the Operating Room: My Life as an International Relief Doctor, from Haiti, to South Sudan, to the Syrian Civil War
No Crying in the Operating Room: My Life as an International Relief Doctor, from Haiti, to South Sudan, to the Syrian Civil War 4.22 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Nee Naw: Real Life Dispatches From Ambulance Control
Nee Naw: Real Life Dispatches From Ambulance Control 4.21 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia 4.03 avg rating — 33,833 ratings
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
by: Roz Chast
4.16 avg rating — 31,595 ratings
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Population: 485
Population: 485 3.93 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
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The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina's Triumph over Diabetes
The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina's Triumph over Diabetes 3.82 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Girl in the Dark
Girl in the Dark 3.52 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
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Raising Lazarus
Raising Lazarus 3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings
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My Lobotomy: A Memoir
My Lobotomy: A Memoir 3.76 avg rating — 14,247 ratings
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The Body Broken
The Body Broken 3.54 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Ryan White: My Own Story
Ryan White: My Own Story 4.30 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
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Chief Complaint: Brain Tumor
Chief Complaint: Brain Tumor 4.29 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown
Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown 3.59 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Rusty's Story
Rusty's Story 4.19 avg rating — 53 ratings
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All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache 3.91 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos 4.38 avg rating — 9,726 ratings
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Mom's Cancer
Mom's Cancer 3.93 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
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Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics 3.90 avg rating — 629 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,570 ratings
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Cancer Vixen
Cancer Vixen 3.73 avg rating — 1,566 ratings
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Ian Frazer: The man who saved a million lives
Ian Frazer: The man who saved a million lives 3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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A Stroke of Luck: A Girl's Second Chance at Life
A Stroke of Luck: A Girl's Second Chance at Life 3.98 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Diary of a Medical Nobody
Diary of a Medical Nobody 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Diploma Nurse: Her Shining Day, Her Fading Touch
The Diploma Nurse: Her Shining Day, Her Fading Touch 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Quit or Die Trying
Quit or Die Trying 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope
The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope 4.14 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love, and Beating the Odds
Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love, and Beating the Odds 4.15 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT
Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT 3.73 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
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Journey Into Grace: Tales of a Psychic Paramedic
Journey Into Grace: Tales of a Psychic Paramedic 4.59 avg rating — 96 ratings
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A Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Story of One Boy's Gift to Medical Science
A Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Story of One Boy's Gift to Medical Science 3.93 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery 4.25 avg rating — 41,359 ratings
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One Mother's Journey: Creating My Family through In Vitro Fertilization
One Mother's Journey: Creating My Family through In Vitro Fertilization 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Other Side of Burnout: Solutions for Healthcare Professionals
The Other Side of Burnout: Solutions for Healthcare Professionals 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Early Recollections and Life of Dr. James Still
Early Recollections and Life of Dr. James Still 4.34 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Six Days of Impossible: Navy SEAL Hell Week - A Doctor Looks Back
Six Days of Impossible: Navy SEAL Hell Week - A Doctor Looks Back 4.38 avg rating — 357 ratings
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You're Not Dead 'til I Say You're Dead: A Nurse's Reflections on Death, Dying, and the Near-Death Experience
You're Not Dead 'til I Say You're Dead: A Nurse's Reflections on Death, Dying, and the Near-Death Experience 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Brand New Catastrophe
The Brand New Catastrophe 3.82 avg rating — 273 ratings
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The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete
The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete
by: Matt Long
4.14 avg rating — 3,424 ratings
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Transplanted: My Cystic Fibrosis Double-Lung Transplant Story
Transplanted: My Cystic Fibrosis Double-Lung Transplant Story 4.48 avg rating — 69 ratings
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