This is a true story about a doctor who, as a young man, developed a fierce independence. His goals became not only to become the best doctor he could be but to be his own boss. It's also the story of a healthcare system that became hostile to that independence, such that to continue as an independent doctor became riskier over time. This is my story. I'm that doctor who, at times, had to risk it all just to be my own boss.

Cowboys and Indian: A Doctor's First Year in Texas is an exciting and entertaining account of a doctor's first year of practice in an underserved Texas hospital. Besides the challenges of being an immigrant and a husband and father, the doctor manages medical emergencies like cardiac arrests, collapsed lungs, industrial accidents, lacerations, and other traumas--all with minimal resources. In the course of that fateful first year, the heart-warming and often hilarious events show medical science at its best. This book shows a doctor's life at an intimate level, with its many rewards, struggles, and exchanges. This memoir reveals that humor, compassion, and humility make the practice of medicine fulfilling and inspiring.

Cocky, young Aussie bull rider Troy Jensen has been busted down to the pro-circuit. He needs wins and points to get him back into the big league and a shot at being crowned champ but an injury forces him off the circuit and into the arms of the woman fate keeps putting in his path. The first time local Doc Joss Garrity meets Troy, she’s brandishing a lug wrench. The second time, he’s dragging her delinquent teen son home. The third time, he’s in her ER. How he ends up convalescing at her house she’s not quite sure. But it does make it hard to ignore him and their simmering attraction. As Troy gets to know Joss, he starts to see a life after bull riding for the first time. But can Joss risk her heart on another man who may not come home one day? First Published as Troy

A COWBOY WHO HEALS Veterinarian Roce Clayton is starting to wonder if the woman of his dreams doesn’t actually exist. So he’s focusing on another dream—opening his own veterinary clinic on his family’s land beneath Montana’s Sapphire Mountains. When he’s called to a nearby ranch to treat an injured horse, Roce is greeted by the most gorgeous woman he’s ever seen. Maybe dreams do come true. Tracey Marcroft hopes that a summer working with horses will help her forget losing her fiancé. Instead, she’s confronted with a hostile ranch hand who’s trying to scare her off…and who is definitely hiding something. But with Roce at her side, Tracey is discovering that this handsome cowboy doctor won’t just protect her…he might just heal her broken heart.

An army physician on a mission needs a mother for his child—and plain Jane Kendry Harrison is just what the doctor ordered, in the first book in debut author Caro Carson's miniseries, The Brothers MacDowell! Dashing soldier Jamie MacDowell needs a mother for his infant son, stat! And while the handsome M.D. has no shortage of candidates, he lets his baby boy help with the selection. Little Sam falls for quiet Kendry Harrison—a surprising choice, maybe. But Jamie quickly realizes that the orderly's sweet veneer hides a multitude of attractions—and if he's not careful, he could wind up wrecking their carefully set-up "arrangement." Kendry knows her marriage to Jamie is strictly business, but that doesn't stop her from dreaming of a more permanent place in the healer's heart. If only he'd stop resisting the passion simmering between them. Then maybe he'd realize they were made for each other…and meant to be married in every sense of the word….

From the 1920s when he watched his father, a general practitioner who made housecalls and wrote his prescriptions in Latin, to his days in medical school and beyond, Lewis Thomas saw medicine evolve from an art into a sophisticated science. The Youngest Science is Dr. Thomas's account of his life in the medical profession and an inquiry into what medicine is all about--the youngest science, but one rich in possibility and promise. He chronicles his training in Boston and New York, his war career in the South Pacific, his most impassioned research projects, his work as an administrator in hospitals and medical schools, and even his experiences as a patient. Along the way, Thomas explores the complex relationships between research and practice, between words and meanings, between human error and human accomplishment, More than a magnificent autobiography, The Youngest Science is also a celebration and a warning--about the nature of medicine and about the future life of our planet.

"Inspirational historical romance"--Spine.

He gave her everything… but then she destroyed him. A second chance fake fiancée romance about love, mistakes, and the path to forgiveness. Cowboy Jax Dexin thought his best days had arrived the day he’d met Simone. His future was clear, and she was it. Life was buttermilk and roses with her. But then she broke his heart and stomped all over it. Simone Addison left him with scars and vanished. So when she jumps in a few years later to save him in front of his meddling family, his immediate reaction is to refuse her. To send her back to whatever hole she crawled from. Then he sees it for what it is—an opportunity to make her pay. To shatter her like she’d done to him. To make her rue messing with him. Doctor billionaire Simone Addison has only one regret in her life—the day she gave up Jax. She’d loved him and never stopped. And she hopes he can forgive her for breaking his heart. Becoming his fake fiancée wasn’t the best way to get back to him, but with the history between them, she had no choice. But the cold and aloof man in front of her was no longer her sweet and kind cowboy. Melting his frozen heart now seems impossible. Then the unexpected happens. The icy exterior of Jax’s traitorous heart starts to crack and melt. Even though he detests her for breaking his heart… almost as much as he wants her. Even though she could become his downfall again. At least it isn’t an actual relationship, he tells himself. It’s only pretend. Until it isn’t… A DOCTOR BILLIONAIRE FOR THE COWBOY, a sweet second chance fake fiancée medical cowboy romance, is the third standalone book in A Cowboy Loves the Doctor series. Author's Warning: This sweet, emotional, happily ever after will send you on a delicious, heartwarming ride filled with unexpected twists. Side effects can occur if you're allergic to love, all-the-feels, swoon-worthy cowboy heroes, and the confident medical heroines who love them. KEYWORDS: sweet romance, contemporary romance, medical romance, doctor romance, doctor series, clean romance, enemies to lovers, second chance, cowboy romance, rancher, ranch romance, western romance, contemporary western romance, modern romance, heartwarming romance, heart-warming romance, clean and wholesome romance, swoon, sexy heroes in clean and wholesome books, kissing books, love books, strong heroine, guaranteed HEA, happily ever after, no cliffhangers, series, romance series

"The Elephant Doctor of India is the heart-quickening true story of a boy who loved elephants and grew up to forge a maverick path to help them. Dramatic, moving, and packed with fascinating elephant facts, young readers will find inspiration and excitement on every page. No matter what age you are, if you love elephants, you will love this book."—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus and Kakapo Rescue Early on a January morning in 2015, a young bull elephant touched on a sagging electric line in the Paneri Tea Plantation in the Udalgari District of Assam, India. The elephant's soft-padded feet conducted the current and the animal fell, kicking in the mud. The local veterinarian called to the scene thought the tusker was going to die. The forest department warden called the one person who could help: Dr. Kushal Konwar Sarma, India's beloved elephant doctor. The Elephant Doctor of India brings the middle-grade reader into the heart of Assam, a remote land of tea plantations, paddy fields, and ancient forests, to tell the true story of the last viable population of wild Asian elephants and one man who is dedicated to saving them. Author Janie Chodosh spent time with Dr. Sarma and brings his incredible story—and the lives of these magnificent animals—to readers in classrooms everywhere.