A former military psychologist spends her days helping vets overcome PTSD--and her nights fighting her own nightmares. Now, on the run with a client who has already saved her life twice, she must uncover powerful secrets before they both end up dead.

Patch Adams is a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like other doctors. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.

For centuries, doctors have turned to the written word, giving voice to their unique perspectives through literature. Writer, M.D. celebrates this tradition with a wide-ranging selection of writings--both fiction and nonfiction--by some of today's most beloved physician-writers. These stories explore a range of emotions deeply felt by doctors--an acute awareness of our mortality, of the interplay between medicine and humanity, of the weight of responsibility...

"Adam Kay tells the hilarious--and sometimes horrifying--truth about life and work in a hospital."--Dust jacket.

The author of On Call continues her account of her life in medicine as she describes her relationship with her patients, as well as her role as a doctor dealing with the issue of mortality, reflecting on the loss of her father and grandmother, both of whom played profound roles in her life, as well as the mysteries of love, loss, hope, healing, and letting go.

Reunites the endearing, quirky citizens of Cicely Alaska for the best season yet. Has Joel, Maggie, Chris and the rest of the town's residents in their most hilarious and heartwarming situations yet - from the arrival of a rock star to a totem pole war to the annual Mosquito Festival.

Dr. Gregory is starting to feel settled, hopeful that a long period of upheaval in his private life is behind him. He refocuses his energy on his clinical psychology practice, where a beguiling new patient captivates him, but the interlude of calm doesnt last. Devastating fires are threatening Boulder. Alans dear friend Diane is showing signs of a long-simmering emotional collapse. And Alans most pressing fear - the exposure of a dangerous secret...

Dr. Gregory House, a disabled, cantankerous, Vicodin addicted infectious disease specialist, solves medical mysteries with his colleagues at the fictional Princeton- Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the "man without a shadow," who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just beyond the fog of memory. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirrored journeys of self-discovery: Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her...