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In this inspiring audiobook, Joanna shares her adventures to some of the most remote corners of the world while facing the added challenge of living with Crohn’s Disease. Her optimistic outlook shines throughout each chapter. Joanna’s travels include voluntary work and fundraising for a Crohn’s charity, with highlights such as trekking Machu Picchu, climbing the Three Peaks in Transylvania, building a house from banana leaves in Cambodia, and working with elephants in Thailand.

À 51 ans, Nathalie se fait dire que son pancréas est comme un gruyère. Quelques mois plus tard, elle apprend qu'elle est atteinte du cancer du pancréas, le terrible, celui dont le taux de survie n'est que de 10 % tous stades confondus. Nathalie a su transformer ses défis en source de courage et de détermination. Elle ne se laisse pas abattre par les statistiques mais se laisse plutôt guider par sa volonté de vivre. Sa curiosité s’active, elle s’informe à différentes sources, elle expérimente et fait preuve de discernement dans le but de prendre des décisions éclairées.

In When There Are Two Patients in One Body, an experienced Labor and Delivery nurse shares a collection of birth stories, some joyful and others harrowing, that reveal profound life lessons from one of the most intense human experiences. While babies arrive either by vaginal delivery or caesarean section, each birth unfolds uniquely, whether as a momentous and thrilling event or an unexpected and life altering ordeal. This book follows the author's career, presenting a chronological journey through a diverse array of births, each story interwoven with her personal reflections.

Diagnosed with advanced liver disease, coupled with a fracturing marriage, a father of three young girls knows there's no time to engage in anxiety or self-pity. Doug laughs between the tears as he pulls every ounce of courage possible to face the biggest tests of his life. In the chaos of fighting the sneaky, methodical liver disease that threatens to kill him, Doug wrestles with divorce, parenting three daughters, and trying to make the most out of life.

In this powerful fire chief’s memoir, Russell Schwahn invites listeners inside a life spent answering the call—through roaring flames, national disasters, and the quiet, unseen battles of leadership. The Weight of the Helmet captures the grit, compassion, and relentless responsibility that come with decades in the fire service, told with the honesty only a veteran can offer.

Dr. Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 to July 15, 1970) was a Canadian psychiatrist and analyst who, in 1964, wrote the seminal book on transactional analysis, Games People Play, a discussion on the dynamics of human interactions. The following recording is from a 1966 television interview.

“Quacks” delights listeners with a series of hilarious and bizarre stories from Dr Ahmed Handy’s early years working in the NHS. When British Arab and ‘Southerner’ Dr Ahmed Handy suddenly found himself working as a junior doctor in the Midlands, a part of the country with which he was wholly unfamiliar (and which was equally unfamiliar with people like him), he was faced with something of a culture shock. But that was only the beginning of his bizarre junior doctor experience.

A medical doctor and a cancer survivor shares in this memoir, a deeply personal voyage through the turbulent waters of life, navigating through disease and beyond, with medical insight, resilience, and faith. It is regarding the unpredictable and challenging nature of the disease during the prime of her life. It is the indomitable human spirit that allows one to survive such deathly blows of life.

Justin, a young athlete diagnosed with over two hundred cancerous tumors in his body, was breaking track and field records at the age of thirteen before he was diagnosed. Hear about the fortitude of a child determined to live...forever. This true story is beautifully written through the eyes of his mother. She writes about the miraculous, the intimate moments that almost broke not just her, but her son and family. Hope was not lost in this remarkable story of redemption. The power of God is reflected clearly through these words of pain, fear, death, and salvation.

After years of hearing that she was an inspiration to family and friends, Heather decided to strive to inspire a larger audience by writing. Citing a lifetime of personal experiences, she gives her listeners an inside look at her world of insane medical drama, PTSD, pain, grief, and loss. She shares that the only way she has learned to accept each situation she has had to endure was to allow herself time to grieve. She knows that the only way to find lasting peace in the midst of life's many storms may require going through the grief cycle over and over again.

L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial “Coroner to the Stars,” who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood, and hundreds of other notable personalities. Choi, an award-winning historian and professor, deftly blends Los Angeles history, death investigation and forensic science, and Asian American history in a feat of exquisite storytelling.

Wise, candid, brave and incredibly moving, this superb memoir by New Zealand doctor Lucy O'Hagan is full of warm wisdom and humanity. Over her long career Dr O'Hagan has developed deep insights into the profound but often complex relationship between patients and doctors. Learning about her own struggle with what it means to be a truly useful doctor is both fascinating and absorbing.

In this heart-wrenching memoir by a renowned transplant doctor who grew up without religion, a journey of self-discovery as he uncovers his family's past. David Weill grew up in New Orleans the only son of a world-famous Jewish pulmonologist and a Southern Baptist mother. Religion was never...

In this final volume of her memoir trilogy, Dr. Erica Elliott begins her medical training as an enthusiastic, wide-eyed student but soon becomes a disillusioned doctor, sick from toxic chemicals at the clinic where she works. This health catastrophe, followed by a near-fatal accident and the harrowing, experimental brain surgery that saved her life, forces Erica off the path of mainstream medicine and onto a path that leads to her profound healing. More than a half-century after a Navajo grandmother offered a prophecy about her life, Erica fulfills it in ways she never could have imagined.

Why Did She Jump? provides an intimate, uncompromising look into one mother's search for peace, understanding, and clarity amid the chaos surrounding her daughter's tragic death. It is a masterful recounting of the events leading up to her suicide and lifts the veil of shame and secrecy as it forges a path toward understanding mental illness.

‘Particularly poignant ... tasteful and compassionate’ Shindig Capturing all the pain and glory of this incredible family saga, Surf’s Up is the definitive tribute to a remarkable band - and the genius who made it all possible. If any man in pop history deserved the tag of genius, it was...

La vera storia del leggendario italoargentino che ha salvato milioni di persone. Un eroe, un rivoluzionario, un genio della medicina. René Gerónimo Favaloro, considerato il padre del bypass aorto-coronarico, è tutte queste cose insieme. Argentino, nemico giurato del regime peronista, è costretto a vivere per dodici anni in un minuscolo paesino nel mezzo della pampa, dove nonostante tutto riesce a creare un centro medico moderno ed efficiente.

Between Wounded and Well: Lessons in Healing shares a nurse practitioner journey of resilience and hope through the lens of wound healing stages. Debra Palmer, PhD, nurse, researcher, educator and survivor shares an extraordinary story of a childhood marked by trauma and chaos, in which she chooses to not let her past define her future. Through decades of personal struggle and professional insight, she discovered that healing begins with courage.

When Tony Moretti began caring for his Parkinson’s-stricken father, Vince, he thought, How hard could this be? But as the years mounted and Vince’s symptoms progressed, Tony found himself floundering on a monumental journey . . . and there were no answers at the back of the proverbial book. With the support of his wife, their four adult kids, and his three out-of-town siblings (Team Vince!), Tony followed his instincts while navigating Vince’s ever-shifting needs, HMO foibles, and his own father-son baggage.

Ein Moment im Leben, der alles veränderte – live im Fernsehen. Mario D. Richardt wurde vor laufenden Kameras mit einer uncharmanten Aussage konfrontiert: Du hast ja ganz schön zugenommen! Dieser peinliche Augenblick entpuppte sich als Wendepunkt in Marios Leben. Warum nahm er stetig zu, obwohl er seine Essgewohnheiten nicht verändert hatte? Die Diagnose Insulinresistenz trifft ihn wie ein Blitz aus heiterem Himmel. Und er ist nicht allein: Ein erheblicher Anteil der übergewichtigen Menschen kämpft mit diesem Problem.