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G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first doctors to operate deep inside the human heart.

Bestselling author and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his career seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and teacher that he is today. He recalls traumatic events in his childhood that reverberated throughout his life and how, with therapy and time, he was eventually able to heal. He recounts the stories of the patients that affected him most deeply and informed both the direction of his work and his philosophy as a psychologist.

The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant—one the donor and one the recipient—begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love. A mesmerizing and courageous...

De violentes douleurs à la poitrine, un médecin rassurant : « Rien au coeur ! » Quelques jours après, pourtant, ce dernier flanche. Incrédule, récalcitrant, Élie Wiesel est opéré à New York, in extremis. Au bloc, il a toutes les raisons de croire qu’il va s’enfoncer dans un silence définitif. Ce passage de la vie à la mort–tout sauf un vide, découvre-t-il–se peuple d’émotions, de visages, de mémoires, d’interrogations sur lui-même et sur Dieu. Bilan d’une existence et d’une mission.

In this powerful, wide-ranging, and emotional story about the limits of medical knowledge, Abel discovers why she wasn't diagnosed with celiac as a child. She considers how environmental fears and Internet anecdotes lead people to avoid gluten. And she grapples with the question that confronts us all: how to live calmly, even joyfully, in the face of uncertainty.