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Just when life seemed rosy and the sun was shining, Dr. Bhaskar Bora sustained a severe spinal cord injury in July 2019 following an operation, which left him with paralysis of both legs, a nonfunctioning right hand, and a long stay in the hospital, eventually leading to a forced medical retirement from his medical career and a wheelchair in place of a sports car. Poorer financially but richer in experiences of life, he is now a voice for the disabled and has written the book The Second Chance in Life as an honest reflection of his life experiences.

These heartwarming and inspiring stories by brave women and men who have survived breast cancer are a must-listen for anyone personally or indirectly afflicted by the disease. How We Beat Breast Cancer brings together the experiences, thoughts, struggles, and victories of unique women and men from all walks of life, who tell the stories of their battles with breast cancer. Their narratives portray both the good and the bad in a real, candid language, sharing everything from diagnosis, through treatment, to life with and after cancer.

Kan man bli fri från en kronisk sjukdom? När Nadja Öström får sköldkörteldiagnoserna Hashimotos sjukdom och Hypotyreos förändras hennes liv för alltid och hon kastas in i en djungel av hälsoråd och mediciner. Trots en svår och utmanande resa kommer hon ut på andra sidan starkare än någonsin och med nya kunskaper om kost, hälsa och vikten av att se sig själv som en helhet.

Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for the most vulnerable women in the most vulnerable places in the world. At 26 years old, not yet a fully trained midwife, she delivered a baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch; the following year, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. But returning to the UK to work for the NHS, she soon learned that even at home the right to a safe birth was impossible to take for granted.

“Ten years after a car accident paralyzed my legs, a pressure sore infection escalated into a life-or-death scenario requiring emergency surgery, followed by an extended recovery in a nursing home. For weeks, I was confined to a special medical bed, where I was not allowed to sit up, but required to remain on my back 24/7. This is the story of my search for peace and sanity during that claustrophobic confinement, which subsequently led to a deeper understanding and alignment of my internal, eternal well-being". (Author Ashley Lyn Olson).

In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty, was a nurse-in-training at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. For the next three years, she kept a meticulous diary of her day-to-day existence, leaving behind a vivid record of the real-time concerns of a busy, thoughtful woman on the frontline of the war at home. Kathleen’s days were never the same. She writes in clear and lively prose about life in the hospital: of her fellow nurses, her patients, about death and dying, and the progress of the war as wounded soldiers returned from Normandy in the summer of 1944.

Just after COVID arrived in North America, journalist Helen Epstein was diagnosed with endometrial cancer—one of a predicted 66,570 new cases of cancer of the uterine body in the United States in 2021. About 600,000 American women have had it. A candid and eye-opening account of a medical steeplechase of surgery, chemo, and radiation therapy, Getting Through It brings together reporting, research, and elements of memoir to tell an important story. A guide for other women, their caregivers, and their families.

Lachlan was 16 when he found his father dead on the side of a dirt road in North Queensland, Australia. His father had suffered a heart attack and died alone, without warning, in the middle of nowhere. This tragedy motivated Lachlan to train as a doctor and specialise in providing medical care for people living in remote, resource-deprived locations. Lachlan's work has since taken him to over 30 countries. His experiences caring for patients and tackling health problems in some of the most extreme environments on Earth have highlighted some horrendous dilemmas.

Former Newcastle United winger Paul Ferris was 51. He had successfully forged a post-football career as a physio, barrister and then a CEO, and his award-winning memoir, The Boy on the Shed, was just about to be published. But then he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. This honest, sometimes brutal and frequently funny book tells the story of what happened next.

Martha is ambitious, competitive, successful, and now divorced. As she seeks to reinvent herself, she joins a dating site looking for companionship. Instead, she finds her soul mate in Stephan. They do everything together: work, travel, dance, sing, and love. Everything changes when Stephan is diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and then with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS—Lou Gehrig's disease). As the diseases progress, the dynamic, vivacious man Martha married disappears. Does Martha have what it takes to care for him?

"Ein paar Jahre werden Sie schon noch leben!" - wie der Autor mit dieser Diagnose umging Im Alter von 26 Jahren wurde Helmut Retzl mit einer schockierenden Diagnose konfrontiert, die ihn aus seinen Lebensträumen riss: ein schwerer Fall von Multipler Sklerose - keine Chance auf Heilung und nur mehr wenig Lebenszeit. Zum ersten Mal traf Helmut Retzl auf das Phänomen "unheilbar". Heute ist der Autor 57 und fühlt sich wie neugeboren. Helmut Retzl ist kein Vertreter einer neuen Heilslehre und kein Wunderguru, doch er hat nie aufgegeben und sich nie aufgeben lassen.

An impassioned veteran embarks back in time on a long-suffering military experience and the unexpected transition thereafter through the eyes of a meek and humble woman. She must come to embrace the life she now lives in sickness and health in remarkable ways through everything surrounding her. By the time it came for her to have a military medical evaluation, she really wasn’t feeling up to it, given the extent of how she felt that entire month. After the doctors did their evaluation and sent off the report, she waited for the final decision.

Dr. Jean Marmoreo spent her career keeping people alive. But when the Supreme Court of Canada gave the green light to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in 2016, she became one of a small group of doctors who chose to immediately train themselves in this new field. Over the course of a single year, Marmoreo learns about end-of-life practices in bustling Toronto hospitals, in hospices, and in the facilities of smaller communities. She found that the needed services were often minimal—or non-existent.

This is the inspiring, heartwarming story of a mother and daughter’s 50-year journey through the world of cystic fibrosis. Leslie’s medical prognosis was that she wouldn’t live to be seven. Although people with gene-based diseases don’t have spontaneous remissions, Leslie had one. And, despite the odds, she lived a fully functioning life to the age of 50.

Ein einzigartiges Hörbuch, das Sie nicht gleichgültig lassen wird! Von den dunklen Anfangszeiten der Chirurgie, als noch ohne Betäubung amputiert wurde, über königliche Operationen bis zu den heutigen High-Tech-OPs – der Chirurg Arnold van de Laar beschreibt in seinem Hörbuch so packend wie allgemeinverständlich die Geschichte der Chirurgie, und gibt einen spannenden Einblick in sein Fach. In 28 Kapiteln erzählt van de Laar anhand berühmter Operationen, was genau im Operationsaal geschieht.

He never saw the moment on the end of his bed thinking about the nature of the world resulting in him losing touch with reality. But it was the moment he broke through the pressures in the west: to be better, work harder, and ultimately chase your dreams. That he realized nothing meant anything. The only purpose in life was to laugh when something was funny, cry when something was sad, eat when you were hungry, and enjoy every fleeting moment. Being a disciplined, calculated, accomplished engineer, this new paradigm didn’t fit in with the persona he had spent a lifetime creating.

In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden’s decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching listeners around the world and altering the course of Hendrickson’s life. Overnight, he was forced to publicly confront an element of himself that still caused him great pain.

November 13, 2021 will be forever burned into my memory. That day, my sister passed away via medical assistance in dying after an 18-month battle with metastatic breast cancer. Medical assistance in dying became legal in Canada in 2016. Since then, thousands of terminally ill patients have taken advantage of their right to die. I never dreamed that my own sister would be one of them. Jennifer's Choice is the poignant story of the final year and a half of Jennifer's life, and chronicles not only her experiences, but also those of her family as we supported her.

Schon als kleines Mädchen wollte Stephanie Petersen Tierärztin werden. Der Liebe wegen strandete sie auf Sylt - dort, wo andere Urlaub machen, führt sie seit fast 20 Jahren ihre eigene Praxis. In ihrem Alltag mit kleinen und größeren Tieren gleicht kein Tag dem anderen, und in all den Jahren hat Dr. Petersen viel erlebt; lustige Begegnungen mit Hunden und ihren Haltern, dramatische Rettungsaktionen und traurige Abschiede von langjährigen Weggefährten, all das vor der großartigen Kulisse der schönsten Insel Deutschlands.

In the multibillion-dollar business of American medicine, doctors are often portrayed as culprits—opportunistic millionaires who prey on the misfortune of their hapless patients and drive up the cost of health care. But often they are the real victims of a system designed to increase profits for the insurance companies, shady businessmen, and Big Government.