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Facing the prospect of a career-ending disability as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett is forced to deal with a new level of uncertainty and vulnerability, and the everyday fear that something new will go wrong. Taking off her white coat—becoming a patient herself—she confronts unimaginable fears, copes with her limitations, and sidesteps her skepticism of alternative medicine to seek help from unlikely sources. MS pushes Doggett—a perfectionist at heart—to embrace self-compassion.

金と頭は健康に使え！　唯一無二の健康本が誕生！　ホリエモンが世界最先端の抗加齢医学研究者たちにインタビューし得た知見を公開。

Wer bin ich? Wer soll und darf ich sein? Wie bringe ich meine Bedürfnisse und die Forderungen der anderen unter einen Hut? Ein Experiment, mich kennenzulernen – und mich vielleicht selbst zu heilen. Ein halbes Jahr meines Lebens, mit allen Höhen und Tiefen. Mal schauen, ob es klappt.

Donna, an experienced nurse, is a master storyteller. Nurses help so many people during tragedy and heartache. Walking down hospital halls can be a frightening heart-breaking experience. Yet, some degree of hope and comfort can be found through sharing life-changing true experiences from friends, patients, and family. A Christian perspective is given as scripture is creatively threaded throughout the chapters.

Rosalie Linner hat bereits mit ihrem "Tagebuch einer Landhebamme" für Aufsehen gesorgt. Im vorliegenden Band bringt sie eine Reihe von neuen, bisher unveröffentlichten autobiographischen Texten über ihre Tätigkeit als Landhebamme: Lebendig werden all die großen und kleinen Freuden und Leiden geschildert, mit denen man in diesem Beruf konfrontiert ist.

Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to take out the trash. Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, he tried to save the lives of officers shot in the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11.

Die Diagnose Brustkrebs katapultierte mich völlig aus meinem gewohnten Alltag. Plötzlich sah ich mich unzähligen Ängsten und Sorgen gegenüber. Wie soll ich das schaffen? Was wird die Krebstherapie mit mir und meinem Körper machen? Werde ich je wieder angstfrei leben können? Und werde ich überhaupt wieder gesund? Im Juli 2020 wird Katrin Lange mit 41 Jahren zu einer der 70.000 Frauen, die in Deutschland jährlich an Brustkrebs erkranken. Erschwerend kommt für die frische Risikopatientin die Corona-Pandemie hinzu.

If you have Lyme disease, you know firsthand the desperation that comes from being misdiagnosed, misunderstood, and misdirected. You need straight answers and real solutions, but all you get is the runaround. Riding high as a hard-driving entrepreneur in the solar industry, Taylor Nelson contracted Lyme disease in his mid-twenties. Spiraling down swiftly, he tried everything to feel like himself again, turning himself into a human guinea pig. Taylor shares his deeply personal story, what he tried, how it worked, and how to live a full life in the face of a devastating disease.

Diagnose: Depression – Therapie: Hoffnung. Für Nancy Salchow bricht eine Welt zusammen, als binnen kürzester Zeit sowohl ihr Zwillingsbruder als auch ihre Mutter an Krebs sterben. Geschüttelt von Panikattacken, sieht sie keinen anderen Ausweg, als sich schließlich in eine psychiatrische Klinik einweisen zu lassen. Hier nimmt ihr Schicksal eine entscheidende Wende: Sie begegnet ihrer großen Liebe, die ihr die Kraft gibt, aus dem Burn-out und der Depression herauszufinden.

Burl is the story of one man’s unlikely rise from the coal mines of Appalachia to the pinnacle of journalism. After being diagnosed with a fatal kidney disease as a child, Burl Osborne pioneered home dialysis treatment and became the 130th person to undergo a live kidney transplant in 1966—then an unproven, high-risk operation. While managing his challenging illness, Burl distinguished himself early as a writer and reporter with The Associated Press, eventually rising to the top of the wire service’s executive ranks.

«Una società non è davvero democratica finché non si sposta decisamente verso la voglia di capire.» È a questo desiderio che Umberto Veronesi si è ispirato nella sua ricerca, nel suo lavoro quotidiano di medico e nella sua vita. Da qui è partito per cercare di comprendere un mondo sempre più complesso e più sfuggente, ma anche capace di offrire grandi opportunità a patto di saperle vagliare in modo critico, libero, responsabile. Alla base di tutto sta il nostro diritto di essere umani - donne o uomini, sani o malati, stranieri o cittadini.

The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship.

A doctor’s powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40-year quest to find a treatment for multiple sclerosis.

"J'ai un mal qui me ronge, l'endométriose". "En février 2017, au cours d’un prime de Touche pas à mon poste !, un internaute m’a posé une question très personnelle, intime, à laquelle j’ai décidé de répondre. Dire la vérité était une évidence, et j’en étais là de l’existence : arrêter de me cacher, de m’anesthésier, de fuir. Assumer mon désir plus fort que tout d’avoir un enfant et me dresser pour vivre avec mes bleus, mes bosses, mes peurs. Mon cri venait du ventre. En parlant de mon endométriose, la maladie avec laquelle je cohabite depuis dix ans, j’ai rompu la loi du silence."

Von einem Krebsforscher und Arzt, der zum Patienten wurde. Wolfram Gössling müsste längst tot sein, wenn man Statistiken glaubt. Der renommierte Krebsarzt und Harvard-Wissenschaftler ist 44 Jahre alt, als bei ihm ein extrem seltener Krebs diagnostiziert wird; Überlebenschance 4 Prozent. Gössling erzählt vom Trauma der Behandlung und seiner unwahrscheinlichen Heilung; von seiner Arbeit als Arzt und seinem Dasein als Patient. Er spart auch die innere Verwundung, die ihm der Krebs zugefügt hat, nicht aus, wie die ständige Angst vor einem Rezidiv.

For over a decade Alex Dowsett had been one of Britain’s best cyclists. He has ridden Grand Tours and Classics for elite teams including Sky and Movistar and broke the iconic World Hour Record – the ultimate time trial challenge. With humour, insight and brutal honesty, Alex tells of the challenges he has faced in his struggle to reach the top and his years as a pro-cyclist.

The nation’s best-loved vet looks back at the funniest, most absurd or heart-breaking animal encounters and situations he has been in over his long and highly successful career.

In this, the first book in his serialised memoir, he describes his childhood and school years. He chronicles his university years at medical school and his time spent becoming a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Returning to the community in which he grew up, he sets up his practice, and it thrives. One day, he has a seemingly minor tiff with an old cantankerous plastic surgeon. The fallout of this trivial incident would only manifest ten years later with catastrophic consequences….

Em Medicina dos horrores, a historiadora Lindsey Fitzharris narra como era o chocante mundo da cirurgia do século XIX, que estava às vésperas de uma profunda transformação. A autora evoca os primeiros anfiteatros de operações—lugares abafados onde os procedimentos eram feitos diante de plateias lotadas—e cirurgiões pioneiros, cujo ofício era saudado não pela precisão, mas pela velocidade e pela força bruta, uma vez que não havia anestesia. Não à toa, os mais célebres cirurgiões da época eram capazes de amputar uma perna em menos de trinta segundos.

Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir is Cassandra Alexander's poignant effort to come to grips with suicidal ideation and PTSD after being a covid nurse in an ICU in 2020. Comprised of original essays and her chronological journals, tweets, and emails as she attempted to save lives, including her own—this book will let you experience last year from the bedside.