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What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free. Using stories and case studies from across his thirty-year career as a GP, Dr Phil Whitaker offers insight into the medical movements, political interference and societal changes that have transformed the role of doctor over the past three decades.

«Una società non è davvero democratica finché non si sposta decisamente verso la voglia di capire.» È a questo desiderio che Umberto Veronesi si è ispirato nella sua ricerca, nel suo lavoro quotidiano di medico e nella sua vita. Da qui è partito per cercare di comprendere un mondo sempre più complesso e più sfuggente, ma anche capace di offrire grandi opportunità a patto di saperle vagliare in modo critico, libero, responsabile. Alla base di tutto sta il nostro diritto di essere umani - donne o uomini, sani o malati, stranieri o cittadini.

Have you ever been told that your pain is imaginary? That's the reality of the more than 190 million people suffering the excruciating condition known as endometriosis. Journalist Tracey Lindeman knows it all too well. Decades of suffering from endometriosis propelled the creation of BLEED—part memoir, part investigative journalism, and all scathing indictment of how the medical system fails patients. Through extensive interviews and research, BLEED tracks the modern endo experience to the origins of medicine and how the system gained its power by marginalizing women.

There are many struggles in this difficult world that can darken our skies. It may be ongoing health issues, depression/anxiety, relationship struggles, financial calamity and so much more.

What do you do when your reality slips away? If you're Sky Yardley and Jane Dwinell, you accept each new challenge, reshape your life, and write. When Sky was diagnosed with "probable early stage Alzheimer's" at age 66, he was determined to live as fully as possible. He researched dementia, talked about dementia, connected with other people with the disease, and wrote about it.

In Confessions of a Surgeon: A Deeper Cut, Dr. Ruggieri blows the operating room doors right off their hinges. It cuts deeper into a profession, even more mysterious then ever before. He candidly shares his thoughts on the patients that have impacted his life the most.

This book is about the life of the author. It focuses on her faith, her hope, and her endurance during the years of her illness. In this true story, you will learn the how and why about the effects that changed her family’s life—the author’s Crohn’s disease, the 14 blood clots, toxic gut syndrome, colitis, tumors, ulcers, vertigo, weight gain and loss, pregnancies, the many surgeries, and how her body would not wake up after some of her surgeries.

Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award USA Today Bestseller “All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about women’s bodies with all the narrative propulsion of a medical thriller, Comen has written...

Dr. Liz O'Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practice at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz's incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she molded and reshaped women's breasts, while saving their lives; to the heart-breaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer. But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man's world

The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship.

A doctor’s powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40-year quest to find a treatment for multiple sclerosis.

These memoirs are delightful to listen to, from the mischievous tales of Peter growing up to the emergence of Peta, a young woman who chose to dedicate her life to serving others as a nurse and midwife. Her story is a life of daring, daring to stand up and speak out, daring to be that voice for others, daring to be different, and do it all with kindness and empathy.

"J'ai un mal qui me ronge, l'endométriose". "En février 2017, au cours d’un prime de Touche pas à mon poste !, un internaute m’a posé une question très personnelle, intime, à laquelle j’ai décidé de répondre. Dire la vérité était une évidence, et j’en étais là de l’existence : arrêter de me cacher, de m’anesthésier, de fuir. Assumer mon désir plus fort que tout d’avoir un enfant et me dresser pour vivre avec mes bleus, mes bosses, mes peurs. Mon cri venait du ventre. En parlant de mon endométriose, la maladie avec laquelle je cohabite depuis dix ans, j’ai rompu la loi du silence."

In January 2020, Admiral Brett P. Giroir, MD, was among the first federal leaders tapped to handle the reintegration of US citizens from Wuhan, China, in the earliest days of what became the Covid-19 pandemic. As such, he was one of the few to see what everyone believed were the only Americans exposed to the novel virus at the time. Ultimately, Giroir would be called to serve on the White House Coronavirus Task Force under President Donald Trump.

Von einem Krebsforscher und Arzt, der zum Patienten wurde. Wolfram Gössling müsste längst tot sein, wenn man Statistiken glaubt. Der renommierte Krebsarzt und Harvard-Wissenschaftler ist 44 Jahre alt, als bei ihm ein extrem seltener Krebs diagnostiziert wird; Überlebenschance 4 Prozent. Gössling erzählt vom Trauma der Behandlung und seiner unwahrscheinlichen Heilung; von seiner Arbeit als Arzt und seinem Dasein als Patient. Er spart auch die innere Verwundung, die ihm der Krebs zugefügt hat, nicht aus, wie die ständige Angst vor einem Rezidiv.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH “This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence One of NPR’s 11...

Weaving the personal with the history of anatomy and the dissected, Jackie Dent explores the world of whole-body donation—all the while looking for answers as to what happened to her grandparents.

Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies—the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. The story of our medical triumphs reveals an inspiring tapestry of human achievement, but the journey was far from smooth. It is a tale replete with dramatic episodes as spellbinding as any blockbuster Hollywood movie. In The Masters of Medicine, Dr. Andrew Lam, an award-winning author and retinal surgeon, distills the long arc of medical progress down to the crucial moments that were responsible for the world's greatest medical miracles.

Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American...

This program is read by the author. From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive...