Titoli in Medico

The number one Sunday Times bestseller. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In...

As if juggling a life with half-a-dozen kids, including triplets, isn’t enough, Steve Tate receives the life-altering news that one of his triplets, Hayes, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The once-star collegiate football player finds himself fighting for his son’s life. This memoir takes you through the various challenges he faced raising a family of six kids and balancing a career, all while his son battled the odds. Both Steve and his high-school sweetheart, Savanna, found hope and happiness through the example of their 20-month-old son Hayes.

The doctor is in! America's best-loved therapist, Dr. Ruth, is known for her wise counsel on all matters of the heart. Here she shares private stories from her past and her present and her insights into living life to the fullest at any age.

"Vi tror tyvärr inte att han kommer överleva "Det är en vacker höstkväll i slutet av september 2013. Charlies kropp ligger på en kal bår inne på intensivvårdsavdelningen på Länssjukhuset i Kalmar. Hans föräldrar har just fått samtalet från läkaren som ingen vill få, ett samtal där man berättar att deras son kommer att dö. Några timmar tidigare har Charlie fått en kraftig panikångest-attack och starka självmordstankar. I stundens förvirring tar han en överdos av värktabletter och lugnande medicin för att bli kvitt ångesten, för att känna ro, kanske också för att dö.

In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day in a hospital's cancer ward. In the span of 12 hours, lives can be lost, life-altering medical treatment decisions made, and dreams fulfilled or irrevocably stolen.

Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN)...

In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor - and the poor suffer from their mistakes. Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas.

A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and some are quite literally transformed by the request.

I mitten av mars 2020 blir småbarnspappan Thomas Wilander plötsligt sjuk. Han får hög feber, ont i kroppen och svårt för att andas, men tror att det bara är en vanlig förkylning. Inte kan han väl ha drabbats av något allvarligt, han som är i så god form och lever så hälsosamt? Efter en vecka skjutsar hans fru honom till sjukhuset, där man konstaterar att han har covid-19. Han läggs genast in på intensivvårdsavdelningen och sövs ned. Därefter minns han inget förrän han vaknar upp den 5 maj, efter 36 dygn i respirator.

I juli 2014 fick Sven Erik Nordin beskedet att han hade en aggressiv form av cancer i underlivet. Samtidigt fick han veta att hans enda chans att överleva var att genomgå en omfattande operation som bland annat innebär att hela penis skulle avlägsnas. Efter en kort betänketid bestämde sig Sven Erik för att inte följa läkarens råd och tackade nej till behandling. I stället började han febrilt leta efter alternativa metoder som kunde bota honom. I dag är han friskförklarad!

Varje år får omkring 1300 personer någon typ av hjärntumör, bara i Sverige. Man kan råka ut för en godartad (benign) eller elakartad (malign) tumör och symtomen är ungefär de samma för båda sorterna. 2011 fick mamman och projektledaren Åsa Tönne diagnosen 'malign hjärntumör.' Hela hennes liv rasade samman och en envis kamp mot klockan och sjukdomen startade.

PORUSZAJĄCA KSIĄŻKA O MIŁOŚCI I MEDYCYNIE. O DZIAŁANIU MÓZGU W EKSTREMALNEJ SYTUACJI. O HEROICZNEJ WALCE O RODZINĘ, GODNOŚĆ I NADZIEJĘ. W 2011 roku u męża dr Lisy Shulman, dr. Williama Weinera, zdiagnozowano raka. Zmarł siedemnaście miesięcy później. Oboje byli neurologami. NAGLE Z LEKARZY STALI SIĘ PACJENTAMI. Neurolog jest ekspertem w nauce o mózgu, jednak nikt nie jest dobrze przygotowany na kolejne etapy walki ze śmiertelną chorobą. Ta książka jest poruszającym zapisem przemyśleń obojga lekarzy.

After a 25-year break from boating, Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after his father’s death. In this memoir, Brian Harvey shares his experience of voyaging with his father’s ghost for two months in the Pacific.

Freedom 55? The so-called “Golden Years”? What if you are slowly losing your memories and your motor skills? Or what if you are the devastated witness as your partner struggles with dementia? Lewy Body Disease is a form of dementia second only to Alzheimer’s in numbers, yet many doctors and almost no lay people have ever heard its name. This is the story of two courageous people, Julie and Ken Sobol, life partners as well as writing partners. Caught up in the frightening and fatal fog of Lewy Body Disease, they started writing this book together.

Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it’s like to face your own mortality when, to be honest, you thought you’d live forever. She describes how even the darkest moments of life can be made worse with roommates; details how much determination it takes to ignore the statistics; and answers the age-old question: What does it take to get a banana popsicle around here?

When her six-year-old daughter found her collapsed on the kitchen floor, Rachel had no idea how much her life was about to change. A brain scan revealed a dark shadowy mass, a huge abnormal growth of tissue that, whilst benign, was still growing and would surely kill her. It was too big to operate on. It needed to be "managed", and Rachel had, at best, two years to live. Refusing to accept the bleak prognosis, Rachel was determined to stay alive.

The word “refugee” sparks conversation and fuels emotion. There are more than 22 million refugees worldwide and another 65 million who have been forcibly displaced. But who are these people? Images filter into our consciousness via dramatic photographs - but these photos only offer a glimpse into their stories. As a young ER nurse in Boston, Roberta Gately was stopped cold by stark images of big-bellied babies with empty haunting stares in the news. She called the aid organization featured in the news story, and, within two months, she had become a humanitarian aid worker.

In this revelatory memoir, doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth other doctors don’t always understand and often won’t share if they do - that chronic illness is complicated, and that treatment is not just a matter of test results and prescriptions but requires a more comprehensive approach. By sharing her own struggle with a disabling autoimmune crisis, which forced her to question her own conventional medical training and embrace the integrative principles of functional medicine, Li reveals the insider knowledge sufferers need to truly begin healing - mind, body, and spirit.

Citizen-Surgeon takes listeners into the otherwise inaccessible, remote, and intense world of life and surgery within a combat zone. In the backdrop of the US-led war in Afghanistan, amid a defining US Marine Corps’ offensive to conquer the Marjah region of Helmand Province, [then] US Navy Commander Paul Roach and his company-mates assemble and congeal as a medical unit in Southern California, transport from the United States to their tents in Dasht-e-Margo (the “Desert of Death”) in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.