When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on an overwhelmingly challenging and confusing journey. For many, it is as if they are traveling to someplace entirely new and they must go there alone, with only faded directions back to their old lives. Often, even their loved ones can only guess at what they must be experiencing.
The Lonely Patient is a clear-eyed and deeply affecting examination of the inner life of those grappling with illness. It looks into the chasm between the well and the sick by exploring and giving voice to the often unarticulated aspects of illness, offering people with illness—and their family and friends—a frank and intelligent discussion of how to negotiate the psychological and emotional aspects of what they are going through.
Michael Stein, M.D., a professor of medicine at Brown University Medical School as well as an acclaimed novelist, uses the stories of a number of patients, including that of his beloved, terminally ill brother-in-law, Richard, to consider the personal narrative of sickness. What sets Stein's book apart is his intimate scrutiny of the uniqueness of each patient's experience, which he breaks into four parts—betrayal, terror, loss, and loneliness—and renders each in such a way that he opens a dialogue about our expectations of health and, after its shocking disappearance, of illness.
Beautifully written and keenly insightful, The Lonely Patient is a valuable book for patients and their caregivers—as well as a probing inquiry into a universal experience.

The Lonely Patient: How We Experience Illness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Stein, Michael

Diseases & Physical Ailments

William Morrow

When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey. For many, it is as if they are traveling alone to someplace entirely new, with only faded directions back to their old lives. Often, even their loved ones can only guess at what they must be experiencing. Michael Stein, M.D., uses the stories of his own patients to consider the personal narrative of sickness. Beautifully written and keenly insightful, The Lonely Patient is a valuable book for patients and their caregivers as well as a probing inquiry into this universal experience.

Parenting & Relationships

Harper-perennial

“A gripping, illuminating book . . . Dr. Stein is drawn, in an almost Sherlock Holmesian way, toward trying to fathom and analyze addicts’ behavior. . . . hauntingly and successfully, Stein lets readers make a doctor’s experiences their own.” — New York Times 
“Beautifully told… [with] great insight, empathy and compassion.” — Abraham Verghese, author of The Tennis Partner, My Own Country, and Cutting for Stone 
The Addict is the powerful and revealing narrative of Dr. Michael Stein’s year-long treatment of a young woman addicted to Vicodin. Dr. Stein has followed up his award winning book The Lonely Patient with “a useful, sensible, and often inspiring guide to how the medical profession does—and should—treat the sick, and the sick at heart.” (Francine Prose, O magazine)

The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

The Addict opens a window on the very private world of prescription drug addiction, revealing the harrowing story of a young woman whose life has been taken over by a need she can't extinguish. Lucy's first appointment with Dr. Michael Stein on a sunny April day began a yearlong series of encounters that took her back to the origins of her addiction and unraveled a life driven by compulsion and the constant pursuit of the next pill. The Addict follows Lucy from the start of her treatment, through relapse, to her eventual long-term recovery, including her breakup with a destructive boyfriend whose own drug addiction surpassed hers. It is an unforgettable tale of a young woman living on the edge but determined to take control of her lifeand a deeply personal account of a doctor on the front lines of an epidemic.

Diets & Weight Loss

A POLITICAL PROVOCATION FROM A PAIR OF PHYSICIANS WRITING OUTSIDE THEIR LANE Americans care about their health. Americans pay lots of money in hopes of maintaining their health. So why are Americans so unhealthy? The reason is simple: as a country, the United States overinvests in medical care at the expense of the social, economic, and cultural forces that produce health. The rise of medicine as a cornerstone of American life and culture has coincided with a social and political devaluation of factors demonstrated to mean more to our vitality than anything else -- influences like where we live, work, and play; livable wages that create opportunity for healthy living; and gender and racial equity. In Pained, physicians Michael Stein and Sandro Galea push the conversation around American health where it belongs: toward matters of class, money, and culture. Across more than 50 essays and data illustrations, Pained casts a light on how the structural components of everyday life -- like school, housing, police, even cell phones -- ultimately determine who gets to be healthy in today's America. In doing so, it makes a case for reframing our political discourse in less myopic, more effectual terms. Accessible and surprising, political but not partisan, Pained is the urgent, uncomfortable conversation that American needs in this challenging moment. It will delight and infuriate readers of all political stripes.

Pained: Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public's Health

Medical Books

Galea, Sandro

Administration & Medicine Economics

Oxford University Press

This guide offers a thorough review of topics from the first two years of medical school. Because it is written by past and present medical students who know what it's like to study for the boards, Cracking the Boards: USMLE Step 1 presents the material in the clearest, most easily accessible manner possible. It includes:A focused review of all the material you need to know for the examBolded key terms for easy reference, plus hundreds of labeled illustrationsThe Princeton Review's proven score-raising approach for USMLE successAreas of study include:Biochemistry: Molecular Biology to MetabolismCell BiologyHuman GeneticsPharmacologyMicrobiologyImmunologyHematologyNeurology and NeuroanatomySkin and Connective TissueMusculoskeletal SystemRespiratory SystemCardiovascular SystemGastrointestinal SystemRenal and Urinary SystemsReproductionEndocrinologyBehavioral SciencesPsychiatry

Cracking the Boards: USMLE Step 1

Breaden, Radhika

Zei, Paul

Medicine

Princeton Review

This guide offers a thorough review of all topics covered in the first two years of medical school. Because it is written by past and present medical students who know what it's like to study for the boards, Cracking the Boards: USMLE Step 1 presents the material in the clearest, most easily accessible manner possible. It includes: A focused review of all the material students need to know for the exam Bolded key terms for easy reference, plus hundreds of labeled illustrations The Princeton Review's proven score-raising approach for USMLE success Hundreds of charts, and diagrams Reviews of all the material students need to know: biochemistry, cell biology, human genetics, pharmacology, microbiology, immunology and more

Test Preparation

Professional

Introduction to Aviation Psychology: Psychology in Air Transportation

Politano, P. Michael

Walton, Robert O.

Psychology & Counseling

Hang Time Publishing

The collection of Gertrude stein and her family.

Four Americans in Paris: Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family

Stein, Leo

Stein, Sarah

STEIN, Gertrude

Baltimore Museum of Art

Explores the solar system through eleven songs packed with facts about the planets

Ride Through the Solar System

Smith, Bryan

Children's Books

Caedmon Audio Cassette

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