Medical

Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future....

Dr Dan Pronk served on over 100 combat missions in Afghanistan as a frontline special forces combat doctor. In this frank memoir, Dan describes the highs and lows of his military-medical career, and the very real toll they took on his mental health and family life....

Dai Henwood wanted to be a comedian even before he knew what a comedian was. He always knew there was something special in being able to make people laugh.

After being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane McLelland dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive. Rather than aiming to cure cancer, which in many cases is unachievable, Jane's approach was to stop it growing....

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each month exploring the people she meets, in life and death, as well as her own growing awareness of life behind the veil....

Undoctored is Adam Kay's funniest and most moving book yet—an astonishing portrait of a life in and out of medicine, from one of Britain's finest storytellers....

This first-hand story of one extraordinary but unheralded member of Britain’s ‘Greatest Generation’, A Nurse’s War brings home with extraordinary lucidity and compassion the realities of wartime Lancashire....

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency call-out for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career....

The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, survived the Australian detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon....

A Life in Trauma is a frank, remarkable account of a career spent helping others, offering a positive outlook on the potential of Ireland’s healthcare system in the future....

The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and best-selling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd....

At the age of 28, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer....

Dr. Lange graduated from medical school in 1981, right as a new plague swept across the globe. His story became intertwined with the story of HIV. At once a physician, scientist, AIDS activist, and medical diplomat, Lange studied ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread....

When you've experienced trauma and conventional treatments have failed, where do you turn? After unsuccessfully trying traditional therapy, renowned author and social researcher Rebecca Huntley chose an unconventional path to healing: MDMA.

A puddle of water on a highway changed Dinesh Palipana's life forever. Halfway through medical school, Dinesh was involved in a catastrophic car accident that caused a cervical spinal cord injury....

"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...

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents.

Diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor, Carmen's doctor gave her six months to live, but with her faith in God and tenacious spirit, Carmen just kept beating the odds. They Call Me "The Miracle" is her story....

In this intimate memoir, renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing, Peter A. Levine shares his personal journey to heal his own severe childhood trauma and offers profound insights into the evolution of his innovative healing method.

In Letters to a Young Therapist, Dr. Pipher shares what she has learned in 30 years as a therapist, helping warring families, alienated adolescents, and harried professionals restore peace and beauty to their lives....

In this sequel to Silent Siren: Memoirs of a Lifesaving Mortician, ride along with mortuary removal technician Matthew Franklin Sias as he cares for the deceased in rural Washington State....

While serving with the Peace Corps in Swaziland, Thomas Cowan encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price - two men whose ideas would fascinate him....

Having worked in the emergency services for more than 15 years, Dan Farnworth has seen it all. There was the time he was called to take away a dead body - only for the 'corpse' to jolt back into life and demand to know what he was doing in her house....

Richard Carlson Jr. was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when he was 21 years of age. His illness first manifested when he was an early adolescent....

In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist and self-confessed death-aficionado Dr. Cynric Temple-Camp takes listeners into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale....

After years of treating patients, Dr. Michelle Choi had a moment of clarity that rocked her to her core: she wasn’t really helping anyone, and after all these years, she had lost sight of herself. The only way to reclaim some decency would be to demand a big change. After working her entire life to become a doctor, Michelle achieved her dream but realized it wasn’t what she expected. Instead of helping patients feel well, she answered corporate medicine’s unrealistic expectations and practiced assembly-line healthcare.

Herzzerreißend, mutmachend, witzig und zärtlich: ein autobiografischer Kurztext von Bestsellerautorin Sophie Kinsella Als Eve eines Morgens im Krankenhaus aufwacht, hat sie keinerlei Erinnerung, wie sie dort hingekommen ist. Ihr Mann Nick, der stets an ihrer Seite wacht, erklärt ihr, dass ihr ein bösartiger Hirntumor entfernt wurde. Von nun an muss Eve, eine gefeierte Bestsellerautorin, alles neu lernen – das Laufen, das Sprechen, das Schreiben. Und sie muss sich mit der Diagnose auseinandersetzen, womöglich nie wieder gesund zu werden.

ஒரு எளிய கதை, காட்டின் மீதான நேசிப்பை அகத்துள் ஏற்படுத்துமா? என்ற கேள்வியை அறிவுச் சமூகம் எழுப்புமாயின், ஜெயமோகனின் யானை டாக்டர் கதையை நாம் துணிந்து முன்வைக்கலாம். கால்நடை டாக்டர் கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி, யானைகளின் உடல்நிலையைப் பேணுவதற்காக உருவாக்கிய விதிமுறைகள் தான் இந்திய வனவியல் துறையின் கையேடாக இன்று உள்ளது.

This is a true story about Brandon C. Gandy, who overcame fifteen birth defects, twenty-eight surgeries, a medically induced coma, and cancer, and became the eighth person in the world to have a testicular and kidney transplant. During all of his near-death medical challenges, Brandon persisted; he would remain an athlete and he tackled many different sports. His brave, strong journey sheds light on real-life struggles of what a miracle child has to go through growing up and how he turned his preconceived weaknesses into his ultimate strengths with his endless faith.

Las esperadísimas memorias del Doctor Valentín Fuster, el médico más importante de los últimos cien años y el científico e investigador español más citado de todos los tiempos. Valentín Fuster soñaba de niño con ser tenista. Y tal vez, de haber continuado practicando con la raqueta, lo hubiera sido. Pero un incidente en el instituto y, sobre todo, un médico, Pedro Farreras Valentí, cambiaron su destino para siempre y lo llevaron a convertirse en uno de los cardiólogos más influyentes de todos los tiempos.

The Invisible Black Nurse emerged from research grounded in historical reviews and contemporary perspectives that describe the experiences of Black nurses as their various roles as clinicians, educators, administrators and researchers. Recurring themes include feeling invisible, feeling devalued and being held to a higher standards than their peers in their professional role. She has presented her research at various professional nursing conferences and the Association of Psychiatric Nursing.

Sönke Nissen führte ein Leben wie aus dem Bilderbuch: Vorzeigesohn, Traumkarriere, Wunschfamilie. Dann fiel von einem Tag auf den nächsten das ganze Kartenhaus in sich zusammen. Dem schleichenden Zerfall seiner Ehe folgte die Kündigung als Geschäftsführer und schließlich binnen weniger Tage die Diagnose einer degenerativen, fortschreitenden Muskelerkrankung. Was sich liest wie eine zerstörte Biografie, wurde zum Beginn einer märchenhaften Wandlung.

Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from "bold oracle" to "publicity hound". According to poet Allen Ginsberg, he was "a hero of American consciousness", and writer Tom Robbins called him a "brave neuronaut". President Richard Nixon called him "the most dangerous man in America". During the 1960s and 1970s, at the height of the counterculture movement, Leary was arrested 36 times. The following recording was made in 1992.

When Cris Ross and Ed Marx were diagnosed with cancer, they thought they knew what to do next. They were, after all, executives at two of the premiere hospitals in the United States—Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. But even decades of obsessing about effective delivery of patient care could not have prepared them for the emotional and logistical complexity of navigating the healthcare system. Diagnosed is the book Cris and Ed wish they’d had when they embarked on their medical journeys.

My editor had ok'd the story, "The Unveiling of a Quack", and now I faced the man whom the power of the press would squash like a bug. "Five times," he said quietly in response to my question, "the Medical Society of the County of New York sent a committee here to investigate my methods. I let them see patients, X-rays, records, everything." "And what were the results of those investigations?"