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Not Now I'm Having A No Hair Day

Christine Clifford

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

This is not a cheerful book 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is not a cute, funny book about the visicitudes of cancer, its treatment and aftermath. Instead, it is a shallow exposition of one person's experiencing the meaninglessness of life in the face of a premature death.

The author, who claims to have a master's degree in theology, feels that there is no point in living life to the fullest in the face of her cancer diagnosis. Instead, she retreats to an existance in front of the television and immerses herself in the trivia of TV Guide's crossword puzzles. Her cynicism cuts her off from any possibilty of even attempting spiritual growth. The book is one, long cry of existential angst.

I am writing this review as a warning to any cancer patients who are looking for some humor or a lightening of spirit with respect to their condition. While, as a cancer survivor myself, I was able to identify with some of her experiences and insights, as a whole I found the tone of the book extremely negative and the outlook hopeless. This is not my experience with my cancer, and I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

There are no answers, here, only questions that I doubt anybody in the author's position needs reminding of. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

Editorial Review:

Straightforward and honest, Not Now, I'm Having a No Hair Day paints a realistic picture of what it was like for Christine Clifford to discover breast cancer, undergo surgery, and endure months of radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Her moments of fear, frustration, embarrassment, love, and joy are captured playfully in 60 cartoons. Cancer patients and their families will readily enjoy a humorous look at a serious subject.

Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy

Patch Adams

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine

• Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care system

• Released as a film from Universal Pictures, starring Robin Williams

Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now building a full-scale hospital that will be open to anyone in the world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know and work with Patch. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary to help heal. In his frequent lectures at medical schools and international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike facade of the medical industry to address the caring relationship between doctor and patient that is at the heart of true medicine.
All author royalties are used to fund The Gesundheit Institute, a 40-bed free hospital in West Virginia.
Adams' positive vision and plan for the future is an inspiration for those concerned with the inaccessibility of affordable, quality health care.

Today's high-tech medicine has become too costly, impersonal, and grim. In his frequent lectures to colleges, churches, community groups, medical schools, and conferences, Patch shows how healing can be a loving, creative, humorous human exchange--not a business transaction.

The Placebo Chronicles: Strange But True Tales From the Doctors' Lounge

Douglas Md Farrago

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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True Tales of the ridiculous, the silly, and the just plain weird cases doctors face—lampooning the medical bureaucracy that makes practicing medicine and getting medical care such a headache.

Doctors have a sick sense of humor. This is the deep, dark, and hilarious secret of the medical profession revealed by the irreverent Dr. Douglas Farrago in his popular satirical magazine, Placebo Journal—affectionately known by its thousands of fanatic readers as “Mad magazine for doctors” and called, by U.S. News.com, “raunchy, adolescent, and very funny.” Now, in The Placebo Chronicles, Dr. Farrago has compiled the best of the most outrageous and uproarious true stories to come out of the ERs and examination rooms of doctors all over the country.

Submitted by actual physicians, these are the stories they tell each other at cocktail parties and in doctors’ lounges, trading sidesplitting and truly unusual tales of their most embarrassing medical moments, the grossest things they’ve ever seen in medicine, their favorite Munchausen patients, and much more, including “The X-Ray Files”—mind-boggling anecdotes and images of the oddest foreign objects doctors have removed from patients. Not for the faint of heart, the humor in The Placebo Chronicles is brutally funny—just what the doctor ordered to guard against the ill effects of an M.D.’s worst enemies: the Medical Axis of Evil, a.k.a. drug companies, HMOs, and malpractice insurers.

Fully illustrated with fake advertisements—for pseudopharmaceuticals like OxyCotton Candy and Indifferex (the mediocre antidepressant)—this refreshingly honest collection invites doctors and patients alike to share the laughter, a liberal dose of the very best medicine.

Medical Bloopers: 2009 Day-to-Day Calendar

Accord Publishing

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Editorial Review:

No botched operations here . . .

Just humorous happenings as reported by doctors, nurses, and technicians working within the medical profession.

You will be shocked and amazed to the point of laughter by what people say and the things they do in the presence of their caregivers.

Vets Might Fly

James Herriot

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A few months of married bliss, a lovers' nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. James Herriot's fifth volume of memoirs relocates him to a training camp somewhere in England. And in between square pounding and digging for victory, he dreams of the people and livestock he left behind him. 'There are funny cases, sad cases, farm animals and pets, downright farmers, ladies of refinement, hard-bitten NCOs and of course, the immortal Siegfried and Tristan' - "The Sunday Times". 'Another winner...as always hilariously funny' - "The Sunday Telegraph". 'It is a pleasure to be in James Herriot's company' - "Observer".

Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man

Justin Richards

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Slow and tedious 2 out of 5 stars.
8 of 10 people found this review helpful.

Of the first three 9th Doc novels I hear the most raves about this one but find I like it the least. The plot is slow. The mystery is rather tedius. And the climax is far too technical in writing style to be thrilling, as it should be.

Add in the fact the 9th Doctor acts more like the 7th while Rose is clearly not herself and this book is a letdown.

Hey, It's Doctor Who...not Shakespeare! 4 out of 5 stars.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful.

Okay all, here's my take on this book. First off, for a Doctor Who novel, it was average. It was true to the character of the 9th Doctor (for those of you in the States, trust me on this), and there weren't any painfully embarressing scenes where the Doctor goes completely out of his mind. Secondly, it had a decent story, a tad predictable, but it managed not to have gaping plot holes.

This is a book to read on the train, airport, or during a rainy afternoon. While it's not the best that English literature has to offer, it will put you in the middle of a Doctor Who episode for a few hours.

And really, what else do you read these books for anyway??

Editorial Review:

England 1924: the Doctor and Rose find themselves caught up in the hunt for a murderer. With faceless killers closing in, can they solve the mystery of the Clockwise Man before London itself is destroyed? This is the first of a new series of hardcovers featuring the new Doctor Who from the new TV series.

Tales From The Scale

Erin J. Shea

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Was sad to have it end!! 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 11 people found this review helpful.

This book was fabulous - all of the writers are witty and their insights into the process of living fat and losing weight was so inspiring. I didn't put it down, but I didn't want it to end! Thanks, Erin, for putting such a great read together!!

Great Book 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book when I started my weight loss journey over a year ago. There were many things I laughed, cried, and agreed with. I am close to my weight goal and I have picked up the book and started reading it again because it is so good.

I have recommended it to many friends as well as recommending it during my Weight Watchers meeting. Anyone who has ever been overweight needs to get this book.

Editorial Review:

In Tales from the Scale, author Erin J. Shea - creator of the immensely popular "Lose the Buddha" weight-loss blog - puts together the best rants of some of the most prominent diet bloggers online today, creating a raw, real, and radically different look at losing weight. The Twinkie Defense: how they got fat in the first place; The Inner Fat Girl: the little voice that longs for an identity beyond her body; The Tenth Circle of Hell: Weight-in Day - facing the worst enemy: the scale; Fatty Clothes: for when you've given up

The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants

Richard Gordon

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Sloppy Writing - and Publishing - From Start to Finish 1 out of 5 stars.
5 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This book is not really a history of medicine. It is, rather, a sloppy garage sale of anecdotes, florid sentences, misspellings, poor grammar, and errors of fact (Leeuwenhoek did NOT, as Mr. Gordon states, invent the microscope). The only unifying theme is the author's rampant "humor," but it rarely elucidates the history of medicine. How could St. Martin's Press send this manuscript to the printer without copy editing or proof reading? Beats me.

Ok book if you are already in the medical field 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This was an ok survey of the history of Medicine. I found that the author, (who is from great Britain), uses too many terms more familiar to other physicians. The average reader would probably not enjoy this book, as some of the language can get quite lofty, and encumbered by latin medical terms. If you want an easier read of the history of medicine this is not the book for you.

Editorial Review:

Delightfully witty and richly informative, The Alarming History of Medicine is a collection of anecdotes describing how the historical breakthroughs in medicine were really made. Using hilarious stories, based on actual facts, Richard Gordon shows that most of the monumental discoveries were originally accidents.

A must-read for hypochondriacs, doctors, medical students, and anyone fascinated by the world of medicine, The Alarming History of Medicine is clever, revealing--and all true.

Sex Tips from a Dominatrix

Patricia Payne

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

clever book for the aspiring female dominant 3 out of 5 stars.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful.

I liked this book. The author is witty (sometimes catty) but keeps it interesting. I even fell for her little quiz. It has some great how-tos in it, some personal advice from her own experiences, and some important safety tips too. I would have given this work four stars if it were longer. I'd love to see this author come out with a sequel to this work. She covers all the necessary points of what a dominatrix does/tries to do. She even teaches how to tie different knots. So ladies dont worry about forgetting what you learned in the Girl Scouts! She covers it here for you.

Editorial Review:

Get all wrapped up in lovemaking—with strings attached!

Could your sex life use some new thrills? If so, here's your ticket to fulfilling all those unconfessed desires. Whether you would like to make dominance and submission (D/s) a permanent part of your relationship or are simply looking for a one-spank stand, exacting dominatrix and luxurious bon vivant Patricia Payne will guide you through this brave new underworld. Here are step-by-step instructions on how to set the mood, decorate your room, pick a proper outfit, and wield the perfect quirt. Sex Tips from a Dominatrix includes every forbidden fruit you need to keep the bon in bondage.

• Tips on Whips
• BDSM Glamour Do's and Don'ts
• Silencing Your Lamb
• The Dope on Rope
• How to Get Knotty
• Aural Sex
• Dungeon Decorum
• Advanced Activities

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

Mark Roberts, Jeff Vandermeer

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

“Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid you’re afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!” —Book Sense

You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembled—each disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isn’t heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome.

Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that can’t go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you don’t have Pentzler’s Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection.