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A month after her 24th birthday, Lt. Mary Elizabeth Balster collapses among the rubble of a shelled supply room. On the night of November 30, 1944, holed up in the Heinrich Himmler Barracks in Morhange, France, Lt. Balster's evac receives a typical patient load, but this time one of the admissions is a 19-year-old tanker she'd nursed back to health five months before in Normandy. The charge nurse on Surgical gently informs the lieutenant that the private is critical. 

"Fui tirando aos poucos a roupa bem devagar, enquanto ainda olhava para o espelho. E então me permiti chorar. Minhas mãos cobriram meu rosto e eu apoiei minhas costas nuas na parede fria de azulejos, deixando o desconforto gelado me abraçar ao me lembrar que ainda estava viva e fui escorregando até sentar no chão do banheiro. A água caía no chuveiro e minhas lágrimas lavavam a minha esperança. Chorava pela vida que queria ter. Pelos sonhos que não iria realizar. Pelos amores que não iria viver. Pelos filhos que não iria ter.

人間の本質は肉体ではなく、不可視の生命エネルギーからなる多次元的存在である。「物質医学」から「心・身・霊の医学」への歴史的飛躍を提唱する、画期的な未来医学エッセイ。全米ベストセラー。

O diagnóstico de câncer de mama representou uma verdadeira guinada na vida da jornalista Daniella Zupo. Em 2015, quando estava no auge de uma carreira como apresentadora de TV, a descoberta fez com que ela, aos 42 anos, tivesse que se retirar do trabalho para se dedicar ao tratamento. Foi na escrita que Daniella encontrou o caminho para superar o medo e a angústia. O resultado é Amanhã hoje é ontem – Uma jornada espiritual na luta contra o câncer de mama, relato de como conseguiu enfrentar a doença ao conceber uma nova perspectiva sobre a vida.

For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth-control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. “Restellism” became the term her detractors used to indict her. A story that is all too relevant, The Trials of Madame Restell paints an unforgettable picture of the changing society of nineteenth-century New York.

“I am opposed to heart disease and cancer the way one is opposed to sin.” With that as her battle cry, health activist and philanthropist Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. “I’m just a catalytic agent,” she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike.

The life of a veterinarian is challenging: keeping up with advances in medical care, making difficult decisions about people's beloved companions, and, in Dr. Doug Mader's case, navigating the social unrest in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. The Vet at Noah's Ark follows Dr. Mader and his staff over the course of a year at Noah's Ark Veterinary Hospital, an inner-city LA area veterinary hospital where Dr. Mader treats not only dogs and cats, but also emus, skunks, snakes, foxes, monkeys, and a host of other exotic animals

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.

What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free. Using stories and case studies from across his thirty-year career as a GP, Dr Phil Whitaker offers insight into the medical movements, political interference and societal changes that have transformed the role of doctor over the past three decades.

«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.

Dr. Liz O'Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practice at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz's incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she molded and reshaped women's breasts, while saving their lives; to the heart-breaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer. But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man's world