Medical Memoirs

At nineteen years old, Nicole C. Kear's biggest concern is choosing a major - until she walks into a doctor's office in midtown Manhattan and gets a life-changing diagnosis. She is going blind, courtesy of an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and has only a decade or so before lights-out. Instead of making preparations as the doctor suggests, Kear decides to carpe diem and make the most of the vision she has left. She joins a circus school, tears through boyfriends, travels the world, and through all these high jinks, she keeps her vision loss a secret.

Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then she was called home to fill in for her mother as receptionist at her father's rural Tennessee doctor's office - assured it would only be for a few days.

After a tumor bursts in Mike Scalise's brain, leaving him with a hole in the head and malfunctioning hormones, he must navigate a new alien world of illness maintenance. His mother, who has a chronic heart condition and a flair for drama, becomes a complicated model as she competes with him for the status of "best sick person". The Brand New Catastrophe is a moving, funny exploration of how we define ourselves by the stories we choose to tell.

Grow Healthier as You Grow Older is a personal look at the history of the fitness revolution, a guide for preventive health and fitness to improve the quality and quantity of your life, and an inspirational account of Dr. Kenneth Cooper’s lifelong dedication to the mission of serving others. These days, workouts come in a wide variety, from hot yoga to HIIT (high intensity interval training) classes, pickleball to hip-hop dance. Exercise can be used in three ways: for rest and relaxation, for muscle-building and figure-contouring, and for cardiorespiratory fitness.

Paul Lambert, a quiet and introspective young doctor tells the real-life tales of some of his patients, at a time when care and compassion ruled supreme in British hospitals. Some stories are humorous, some sad, others poignant, but all are very 'human'. The novel also follows Paul's chequered love life and unveils some of the 'high jinks' that doctors get up to when off-duty. Had Jennifer Worth been a surgeon rather than a midwife, these are the tales that she might have told.

Chi era Enzo Piccinini, medico chirurgo tragicamente scomparso in un incidente stradale nel maggio 1999, amico di don Luigi Giussani e instancabile educatore? A rispondere, a 25 anni dalla morte, è Pier Paolo Bellini, amico e compagno di strada del medico reggiano, insieme a Chiara Piccinini, una delle figlie di Enzo, dando voce all'uomo, alle sue opere e alle parole che hanno segnato la vita di molti.

September 25, 2012. Ted Neill picked up a knife to cut his wrists open and kill himself. Post hospitalization and treatment for major depressive disorder, he wrote Two Years of Wonder, a memoir based on his journey toward recovery. In it, he examines the experience that left him with such despair: living and working for two years at an orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya.

Wyburn-Mason syndrome. Ever heard of it? Dan Jeffries has, and his insightful and hilarious memoir explores what it's like living with one of the world's rarest medical conditions - and then finding out you have another one. Told through an innovative new approach that combines the audiobook experience with modern technology, Me, Myself & Eye really lets the listener delve into Dan's life story.

Miracle Survivors provides that lifeline with a collection of stories of cancer survivors who were given a terminal diagnosis but shocked everyone by thriving years past their prognoses. These miracle survivors have different cancers and circumstances, but share a poor prognosis and incredible drive to overcome it.

Rebooting My Brain is the true story of what happens when you get yanked out of your life by a crisis and have to get back on the ride all over again. With refreshing candor, Maria Ross shares how the relentless pace of her life came to a screeching halt when an undetected brain aneurysm ruptured and nearly killed her. Along her stubborn road back to health, her resulting cognitive and emotional challenges forced her sometimes kicking and screaming to reframe her life, her work and her identity.

In ADHD and Me, he tells about the next 12 years as he learns to live with both the good and bad sides of life with ADHD. Blake's memoir offers, for the first time, a young person's account of what it's like to live and grow up with this common condition. Join Blake as he foils bullies, confronts unfair teachers, struggles with distraction and disorganization on exams, and goes sailing out-of-bounds and ends up with a boatload of spiders.

Irvine Lewis experienced a life changing illness at the age of forty-six that changed his outlook on life. Over the last ten years he regained his health, independence and love for life but not without challenges. He is an IT consultant working as a Business Systems Analyst. In his spare time, he enjoys keeping fit, playing music and providing music for therapy to uplift and motivating people. Lewis is married with four children. He is a man who knows the worth of giving selflessly and the importance of valuing others no matter who they might be.

Der Patientenanwalt Peter Gellner vertritt seit vielen Jahren Betroffene und ihre Angehörigen nach medizinischen Behandlungsfehlern und erstreitet Recht und Schadensersatz für sie. In seinem erfolgreichen Podcast Tatort Krankenhaus schildert er echte Fälle aus seiner Kanzlei: tragische Schicksale von Patienten und ihr juristisches Nachspiel. Dieses Buch versammelt 30 dieser spannenden Geschichten aus dem Grenzgebiet von Recht und Medizin, darunter viele neue und bislang unveröffentlichte Fälle.

In his memoir Mind over Borders, Dr. Kalyana Battu takes listeners on an unprecedented journey through the complexities of the human mind. With candid insights drawn from over four decades in the medical field, particularly in forensic psychiatry, Dr. Battu reveals the personal and professional struggles that shaped his career.

Lipödem ist eine schmerzhafte Fettverteilungsstörung, unter der fast ausschliesslich Frauen leiden. Frauen mit Lipödem sind geplagt von Selbstzweifeln, Schuldgefühlen und Machtlosigkeit. Es handelt sich hier um eine mitreissende, wahre Geschichte, wie die Krankheit Lipödem in der Schweiz den Weg an die Öffentlichkeit fand.

Kristin Leer var 44 år gammel, mor til tre og på vej til at uddanne sig til psykiater, da hun endelig fandt ud af, hvad det var, hun kæmpede med. Et af hendes budskaber i denne bog er, at man får et bedre liv med en behandlet ADHD. Bogen er skrevet til dig der har ADHD og til alle i din omgangskreds, der gerne vil være klogere på, hvordan et liv som barn, ung og voksen med ADHD kan leves og mestres.

I really need people to understand the reason behind me writing this book about my grandmother Henrietta Lacks. For those who have never heard of her, she is the first human whose cell line was able to grow in culture; her cells were unlike any other cells. While others cells would die, Henrietta Lacks cells doubled every 20 to 24 hours. She has contributed to the medical field in ways that no other cell line has done. HeLa cells has helped with the polio vaccine, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, sensitivity to tape, dental, and even used in the cosmetic field.

The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of...

In the novel Little Women, Mr. March goes off to war. But in real life, it was Jo March (Louisa May Alcott herself, an avowed abolitionist) who traveled to Washington to nurse Northern soldiers. This is Alcott’s memoir but she chose to use the pseudonym “Tribulation Periwinkle” to tell her story. Despite the subject matter, her account is full of amusing anecdotes as she makes her way alone from Concord, Massachusetts to DC, trying to finagle a free ticket and convinced she will drown during the journey.

This story follows a shy, sixteen year old girl, as she attempts to become a professional radiographer from 1962 into the 1990s. All the incidents and cases are true, for they are Patricia Toulson’s real-life memories.