Titoli in Medico

What if the dreaded world of Alzheimer's was also a world of emotional discovery? Eugenia Zukerman's poetry and simple prose, both heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational, ushers the listener into her world as she unflinchingly examines familial loyalties, moments from her past and present, and the need to face an uncertain future due to the diagnosis of a condition that she truly hopes "will remain unnamed."

Henry Marsh, en av Englands mest framstående neurokirurger, berättar här om sin långa karriär. Han har under sina trettio år i yrket räddat mångas liv, men också ödelagt andras. Hans memoarer är upplagda som en rad fallstudier och tonen är omväxlande svart, humoristisk, varm och känslosam. Marsh beskriver olika sorters hjärntumörer, alltid med utgångspunkt i en enskild människas öde. Han återger det första mötet med patienten, beskriver diagnosen, riskerna, därefter själva operationen och slutligen resultatet.

A deeply touching and uplifting view of the world through different eyes, and a roadmap to finding bliss in the simplest of things. Zena Cooper lives a full life, in which she uses her senses to examine and explore the world around her. She does all that without one thing many of us take for...

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.

Wondering Who You Are braids the story of Sonya and Richard's relationship and those memories he could no longer conjure together with his fateful days in the hospital and through a marriage no longer grounded on decades of shared experience.

"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.

#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.

Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn't until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling - to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City's jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care.

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?...

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...

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?

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.