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Including an exclusive bonus conversation between the narrator and the author, Dr Natalie Cawley. 'I loved this witty, insightful journey into the world of psychotherapy' – Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with...

Author and illustrator Hey Gee tells the story of a real-life Mayo Clinic patient. As an aspiring high-school track athlete takes on race after race, she must learn to manage the challenges of sickle-cell anemia. She'll need to work together with her health-care team and her family, along with techniques for self-care, to find success on and off the track.

Vale a pena. Viver é realmente uma experiência linda, mágica e rara. Marina sempre foi uma mulher forte e saudável. Nada em seu histórico familiar ou hábitos a preparou para encarar o maior e mais aterrorizante desafio de sua vida: o câncer. Simplesmente aconteceu. Mas Marina também sempre foi uma mulher brilhante, e percebeu que, embora a doença fizesse parte dela, não era ela. Ela era muito mais.

Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Tammy wanted to share her journey with ALS with real and raw truths. Follow Tammy as she gives you a peek into her life before her diagnosis and then her journey while fighting ALS. This memoir was written with just Tammy's eyes using a electronic device called a Eye Gaze.

In March 2005, Dr. Steven Berk was kidnapped in Amarillo, Texas, by a dangerous and enigmatic criminal who entered his home, armed with a shotgun, through an open garage door. Dr. Berk's experiences and training as a physician, especially his understanding of Sir William Osler's treatise on aequanimitas, enabled him to keep his family safe, establish rapport with his kidnapper, and bring his captor to justice.

Are you looking for inspiration? Living is the inspiring true story of a father of seven facing cancer with grace.

There is a secret war going on in dentistry right under our very loupes. And while it is invisible to the average dentist, the daily repercussions (lost patients, misdiagnoses, lawsuits, and more) are not.

Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin cut a striking figure in the Army: athletic, quick witted, devout, and studious, he was a natural leader. Thanks to his engineering and leadership knowhow, Martin was chosen to lead the thousands of combat engineers who paved the way for 100,000 Army troops to battle their way to Baghdad in 2003. Only years later would he learn how the pressure of organizing dozens of simultaneous life-or-death missions each day altered the biochemistry of his brain. Bipolar General offers a candid account of Martin's personal journey with undiagnosed mental illness.

This memoir tells the story of Georgia physician Dhaval Desai's life during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a new father, frontline physician and healthcare leader on the brink of burnout, and a member of an ethnic minority in the South, his tale is marked by chaotic intersections. His commitment to fostering and advocating for humanity in medicine inspired him to write a personal narrative of his experience as a frontline physician during the COVID-19 pandemic, "Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines: A Doctor’s Memoir of Fatherhood, Race and Perseverance in the Pandemic".

I once heard someone say, "You cannot aspire to be something you have never seen." This book is not only for every little Black girl out there who has dreamt of wearing a white coat and stethoscope but also for all the little Black girls who have not dreamt of it because they have never thought it possible.

During his 30-plus years of practicing in West Texas and Minnesota, physician and neurologist Tom Hutton discovered that a doctor’s best teachers are often his patients. From these (extra)ordinary individuals, he gained a whole-hearted respect for the resourcefulness, courage, and resilience of the human spirit. Part memoir and part homage to those patients who faced major illness with grace, grit, and dignity, Carrying the Black Bag invites listeners to experience what it is like to be a doctor’s hands, eyes, and heart.

Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal diary, a tool to heal from the day-to-day traumas of seeing too much and caring too much. Hilarious, gut-wrenching, and infuriating by turns, these stories are told from the perspective of a deeply empathetic, no-nonsense young nurse, who highlights the way race, inequality, and a profit-driven healthcare system make the hospital a place where systemic racism is lived.

Working as a vet for nearly five decades, James Cameron Weir has his fair share of stories to tell. From escapee parrots to a stoned cat, helping in charity parades and assisting farmers in the middle of the night, James has seen it all. Here, he recounts stories not only from his own days in practice, but also tales from his colleagues and the history of animal welfare in Scotland. Anecdotes of all creatures great and small can be found within.

Rick Bucher had a normal enough childhood, but his life has been extraordinary since. An adventure sports athlete, racer and instructor, Rick served as a firefighter/paramedic/rescue tech in Scottsdale, Arizona for 27 years. He answered over 16,000 calls for service.

Odjet jako chirurg na misi s Lékaři bez hranic neznamená jen vracet vyhřezlá střeva zpátky do břicha. I přes každodenní hřmění střelby, všudypřítomnou hrozbu cholery, operace těžce postřelených dětí a nedostatek spánku se Tomáš Šebek na své jemenské misi snaží pozorovat běžný život, který se skrývá pod tímto válečným závojem. Jak se žije muslimským lékařkám? Jaké lidské příběhy se ukrývají za tvářemi pacientů a co o nás prozrazují naše jména? Vedle odpovědí na tyto otázky je tato audiokniha také zamyšlením nad posláním lékaře, nad odlišností kultur a nad tím, co všechny bez rozdílu, pacienty i lékaře, spojuje.

'A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK’ JOHN HUMPHRYS 'FASCINATING… SHOCKING' SPECTATOR What is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome? Daniel Freeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent thirty years at the vanguard of paranoia research and treatment. This remarkable and...

En nøgtern og usentimental fremstilling af de erfaringer med demens, Maria Helleberg har gjort, efter at hendes mor for nogle år siden blev ramt af sygdommen. Sygdommens forløb har været præget af både nedture og glæder. Nedture, når det gik tilbage for moderen, og den offentlige omsorg viste sig fra sin mest umyndiggørende og nedværdigende side. Glæder, når der kunne spores fremgang i moderens tilstand. Fremgangen indtraf først for alvor, da Maria Helleberg besluttede at få moderen ud fra den institution, hun var blevet anbragt på.

Als Jürgen Mette während eines Fernsehdrehs mehrfach von einem unkontrollierten Zittern überfallen wird, ahnt er, dass mehr als Kälte und Erschöpfung dahinterstecken. Eine Reihe ärztlicher Untersuchungen bringt schließlich die deprimierende Gewissheit: Parkinson ist in sein Leben getreten. In diesem Hörbuch erzählt Mette von seinem ereignisreichen Lebenslauf. Und nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Reise durch die Höhen und Tiefen der chronischen Krankheit.

Z’s Odyssey is a personal story of the struggle to find relief for intractable pain in a medical, legal, and political climate that restricts opioid doses that were once the standard of care. Z’s Odyssey spans the watershed year of 2016 when the Centers for Disease Control invited the members of an anti-opioid lobby to develop the pain guideline for the first time in near secrecy and have since been opposed by professional organizations representing half a million doctors.

Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation—these persist, but they aren't the milestones of his life. They can't be, he won't let them be. From helicoptering into the Yukon backcountry to teaching in an elite writing program, Jason strives to enter adulthood with some normalcy, but his is the life of "a special case."