Book Reviews
Book Review Archive
YOU, The Owner’s Manual
The underlying theme of this book is to improve your life by understanding risk factors that impact how well and how long we live.
By: Michael F, Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
God Spare Life
By: Dr Claudia Lynn Thomas
Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness
By: Marc Ian Barasch
Living a Miracle
Turning Your Obstacles Into Opportunities
By: Randy Sims
Glamour, Interrupted, How I Became the Best Dressed Patient in Hollywood
By: Steven Cojocaru
The Gift that Heals
The Gift that Heals is a heart-wrenching book of 42 real-life stories covering almost every facet of the organ and tissue donation and transplantation process.
By: Reg Green
Dying Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
For thirteen enjoyable chapters we are invited along with this practicing physician and honored medical educator as he shares insights and inspiration gleamed over a long and fruitful career from his patient’s lives. These were not always easy patients, often challenging even this doctor’s patience to its core, sometimes taking many months to finally “see the person behind the reluctant patient.”
By: William E. Hablitzel, MD
Life in the Gourmet KitchenRecipes from a Kidney Transplant Patient
Recipes from a Kidney Transplant Patient”, you not only learn some healthy and tasty recipes, you get tips on how to shop, hot to cook, and even how to eat out.
By: William Austin, O.D.
Breathtaking
In every life challenge there is opportunity, even when that challenge is facing death. Breathtaking is the story of one young woman’s spiritual growth through facing and accepting her life threatening CF (cystic fibrosis) and one’s mortality through a passion for bible study and accepting Christ in her life.
By: Amber Nicole Metz
Sick Girl Speaks
Lessons and Ponderings Along the Road to Acceptance
By: Tiffany Christensen
Giving Life
Inspirational Stories of Hope for Organ Donors and Recipients
By: Tom Falsey
Nick’s New Heart
The True Story of Love, Strength and Courage
By: Susan May
Will I Live, Will I Die
Patricia shares a story of her life as she goes from fully functional, self-supporting business professional and business owner to an almost overnight adventure into the dark side of medication induced hallucinations and life altering liver transplant, coma and seizures. This may not be the gift book you want to give to a patient awaiting their own transplant due to the often terrifying dream world Patricia describes so realistically as being a part of her transplant experience, but the story is a real-life story and nobody promises the patient that a transplant will be the perfect life solution, often describing that decision as being “not a black and white choice, but rather one of shades of grey” not knowing the quality of life that will result, but then again, grey to most seems better than definite death without the transplant.
By: Particia Kuhn
