Medical Memoirs

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.

Lene Hansson er en dynamo. En aktiv kvinde, der ikke bare taler om sund kost og livsstil, men som konsekvent selv udlever det gode liv med masser af vitaminer og motion. Derfor er det et chok for hende, da hun i efteråret 2009 bliver konstateret alvorligt syg – oven i købet i hjertet!

The junior doctor...back on the wards. After a year on the streets treating outreach patients, Max Pemberton is back in the relative comfort of hospital. This time running between elderly care and the dementia clinic to A&E and outpatients. No longer inexperienced (Max and his doctor friends can now tell when someone is actually dead), they are on the front line of patient care, for better or worse.

Året är 2011, och Elisabet Höglund diagnosticeras med cancer. En jättelik tumör har upptäckts på hennes bukspottskörtel, och vid en operation tas flera organ bort för att bekämpa sjukdomen. Ingreppet är okomplicerat, och snart är hon på bättringsvägen. Men några veckor senare uppstår en komplikation, och Höglund är nära att förlora livet. Efter att redan ha varit nära döden två gånger kommer nu komplikationerna som klubbslag, under några veckor kämpar hon för sitt liv.

Despite having first-rate healthcare, US citizens are not immune to medical horrors. Such was the experience of Ken Dickson, a devoted family man and respected engineer who becomes mentally ill after surgery. Ken’s gut-wrenching journey will leave you appalled by how quickly a medical situation falls through the cracks and propels him into Arizona’s most notorious psych ward.

Country of Ash is the starkly compelling, original chronicle of a Jewish doctor who miraculously survived near-certain death, first inside the Lodz and Warsaw ghettoes, where he was forced to treat the Gestapo, then on the Aryan side of Warsaw, where he hid under numerous disguises. He clandestinely recorded the terrible events he witnessed, but his manuscript disappeared during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war, reunited with his wife and young daughter, he rewrote his story.

A fascinating detective story and moving memoir of death and deceit. When Dr William Macbeth poisoned two of his sons in 1927, his wife and sister hid the murders in the intensely private realm of family secrets. Like the famous poisoner Dr Crippen, Macbeth behaved as if he were immune to consequences; unlike Crippen, he avoided detection and punishment...or did he? As time passed, the story of Dr William Macbeth, well-dressed poisoner, haunted and divided his descendants.

Una preziosa e originale testimonianza su che cosa significhi cecità, dalle operazioni quotidiane a quelle più complesse, in forma di diario scritta da un uomo che è diventato cieco a quarant'anni. Hull, parte dal racconto della discesa nel buio per arrivare a spiegare quello che definisce "il dono oscuro": uno stato in cui la mente recide ogni legame sensoriale con la vita precedente e, per sopravvivere, inventa un nuovo linguaggio.

"It's cancer." Dr Philippa Kaye was 39 years old when she heard those dreaded words. The diagnosis of bowel cancer would change her life and mean crossing the divide from being a doctor to being a patient. She soon discovered that her years of training and experience had not prepared her for the realities of actually living with cancer. Doctors Get Cancer Too tells Dr Kaye's moving story of being on both sides of the desk, and shares the insights she gained not only through the diagnosis and treatment but in surviving and thriving through cancer and beyond.

For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology. Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often...

Where Night Is Day is a nonfiction narrative grounded in the day-by-day, hour-by-hour rhythms of an ICU, in a teaching hospital, in the heart of New Mexico. It is the story of patients and families, suddenly faced with critical illness. In this context, Kelly reflects on the nature of medicine and nursing, on how doctors and nurses see themselves. Drawing on the words of medical historians, doctor-writers, and nursing scholars, Kelly examines the relationship of professional and lay observers, to the meaning of illness, empathy, caring, and the silence of suffering.

På forhånd frygtede han elektrochok som sit værste mareridt. Men behandlingen viste sig mirakuløs. I januar 2018 blev Peter Øvig helbredt fra en svær psykotisk depression på Rigshospitalets lukkede afdeling. Først bagefter gik det op for ham, hvor store omkostninger sygdommen havde haft for ham selv og hans nærmeste. I en lang periode ville hans fjortenårige søn ikke se ham.

A los mandos de un microscopio ultrapotente y un catéter de alta precisión, el doctor Marsh se abre camino por los intersticios del cerebro. Con frecuencia, de su pericia y de su pulso dependen que un paciente recupere la visión o acabe en una silla de ruedas. Hay días en los que salva vidas, pero también hay jornadas nefastas en las que un pequeño error o una cadena de infortunios lo hacen sentirse el ser más desdichado sobre la faz de la Tierra.

It is not necessary to use science and extreme methods to influence and control someone’s life. Simply sowing the seeds at the right time will do that as demonstrated in this book. It tells the story of a little boy from a small village in Guyana, South America, who was brainwashed by his father from a young age to become a doctor.

Audiokniha čerpá z osobní zkušenosti autorky, která několik let působila v paliativní péči. Setkání s lidmi, jimž perspektiva blízké smrti naléhavě otevřela palčivá osobní témata a možná trochu pozapomenuté hodnoty, proměnila i její vlastní život. Rozhovory s umírajícími naznačily několik hlavních směrů lítosti - kéž bych měl odvahu žít opravdu podle sebe, ne podle očekávání druhých, kéž bych tolik nepracoval, kéž bych měl odvahu vyjádřit své city, kéž bych si udržel vztahy se svými přáteli, kéž bych si dovolil být šťastnější.

I november 2016 døde Peter Øvig Knudsens mor. Allerede samme dag besluttede forfatteren, at han ville skrive en bog om hende - og om at være barn af en psykisk syg. I de følgende måneder gik han i gang med sit dokumentariske arbejde som så mange gange før: Han opsøgte dem, der havde kendt hans mor, og bad om aktindsigt i hendes psykiatriske journaler.

In this gorgeous memoir that moves from Jon Kerstetter's impoverished upbringing on an Oneida reservation, to his harrowing stints as a volunteer medic in Kosovo and Bosnia, through the madness of Iraq and his intense mandate to assemble a team to identify the remains of Uday and Qusay Hussein, and the struggle afterward to come to terms with a life irrevocably changed, Kerstetter beautifully illuminates war and survival, the fragility of the human body, and the strength of will that lies within.

Without self-pity, former New York City newspaperman and prize-winning magazine editor, Robert C. Samuels tells his own harrowing story of medical survival. He's filled it with tears, humor, love, and triumph.

Heather Sellers is face-blind - that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people’s faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. But she sometimes kissed a stranger, thinking he was her boyfriend, or failed to recognize even her own father and mother. She feared she must be crazy....

Arriving in 1970s London as a fresh-faced Canadian, Bruce Fogle assumed that because he knew the language, he would understand the English. As a graduate of the world’s best veterinary school, he also thought his profession would come naturally to him. He quickly learned not to make assumptions....