Titoli in Medico

NOMINATED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE An authoritative and deeply reflective investigation into the crisis of care in the UK, with a clarion call for change, from the award-winning author and journalist. We're facing a crisis in care likely to affect every one of us over the course of our lives...

Dr. David Sandberg, an internationally renown pediatric neurosurgeon, combines his deep scientific and medical knowledge with raw emotion and unforgettably powerful stories of courage and love. The brain is the most complicated and perplexing of our organs, and it is also the one that makes us human. When it comes to a child's brain, the hearts of those who love them become inextricably linked to that story. In Brain and Heart, Dr. Sandberg describes the joy, heartbreak, uncertainty, and physical and emotional challenges that come with performing brain surgery on children.

This audio edition is read by Nicholas Ralph, known for his role as James Herriot in the All Creatures Great and Small TV series. ** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 ** Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal...

Enter the frontline reality of a busy intensive care unit in this gripping medical memoir of survival, grief, and hope. Guided by a seasoned nurse across a single, unforgettable year, you will witness the quiet courage required when navigating medical emergencies and heartbreaking end-of-life...

Embrace profound lessons on forgiveness and healing from the intimate, transformative threshold of end-of-life care. This deeply poignant memoir guides listeners through the tender moments shared at the bedside of those facing their final hours. For caregivers navigating grief or anyone seeking...

A sudden cancer diagnosis upends an ordinary mother's life, sparking a raw memoir of medical trauma and defiant resilience. Coping with illness transforms from a lonely battle into a journey of emotional healing. For anyone navigating a sudden life crisis, this gripping narrative captures the...

Nach den beiden Bestsellern „Ich bin zu alt für diese Scheisse!" und „Man wird nicht jünger durch den Scheiss!" entführt Sie Notfallsanitäter Horst Heckendorn zum dritten Mal in die unglaubliche, aber wahre Welt des Rettungsdienstes. Diesmal ohne das böse „S"-Wort im Titel, aber garantiert wieder mit seinem berühmt-berüchtigten rabenschwarzen Humor.

Mut, Zuversicht, Selbstvertrauen: Das zeichnet Marianne Koch aus, und ihre alleinerziehende Mutter hat es ihr vorgelebt. Ihren Vater, den jüdischen Arzt Rudolf Schindler, der emigrieren musste, lernt sie erst als Erwachsene kennen. Da hat ihre Filmkarriere, der zuliebe sie ihr Medizinstudium unterbrach, sie schon nach Hollywood geführt. Doch ihre Passion gilt der Medizin.

A memoir of menstruation, madness and monsters. Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy is an absolute mess. She is irritable, depressed, angry, weepy, out of control. She lays in bed, stares at the walls for hours. Then it passes, and she forgets about it. When a doctor diagnoses her with PMDD...

*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* From award-winning journalist Kathryn Blaze Baum, a powerful account of one woman's quest for answers—and a miracle—from the big business of fertility. After having their first child without issue, Kathryn and her husband were trying for a second. She suffered...

*AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *ONE OF INDIGO'S TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR* A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found. By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings who have...

A aguardada – e bem-humorada – autobiografia de um dos mais importantes pensadores de nossos tempos. Quando Oliver Sacks tinha doze anos, um professor escreveu em avaliação: "Sacks vai longe, se não for longe demais". Hoje está claro que ele jamais parou de avançar. Desde as primeiras...

Oliver Sacks apreende o drama da doença que o levou a morte de forma honesta e eloquente, em toda sua complexidade médica e humana. Durante os últimos meses de sua vida, Oliver Sacks escreveu uma série de ensaios nos quais explorou de maneira comovente seu percurso pessoal para concluir a...

'My first stray thought: cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer teach him before it finishes him off? Peter Goldsworthy asks, obliquely. A GP of forty years' practice, as well as one of Australia's most awarded and...

"Rachel Clarke's authentic narration achieves the most important thing in audio production. It allows the author's humanity to shine and her written words to be transformed into a moving listening experience...Whether end-of-life medicine is one of your interests or not, this audiobook will...

This program is read by the author. A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night’s rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep, a fascinating exploration of the symptoms and syndromes behind sleep disorders. For Dr...

'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' For seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the Wild...

This program is read by the author An International Bestseller "Consistently entertaining...Honesty is abundantly apparent here--a quality as rare and commendable in elite surgeons as one suspects it is in memoirists." —The Guardian "Disarmingly frank storytelling...his reflections on death...

Yumiko Kadota was a young, gifted medical student - the top of her class - on her way to becoming an outstanding plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Fourteen years she'd studied and worked hard. She put in 70-hour weeks at the public hospital as a plastic surgery registrar, accepted everything...

Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when she's involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis. This program is read by the author. When Catherine Cho and her husband set off...