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In the tradition of Susannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire and Hadley Freeman's Good Girls, this is an intimate, deeply researched story of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) by the celebrated Smithsonian editor, memoirist, and essayist. Before I can tell you about the shock treatment, I should tell you...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift, this richly drawn portrait of four nurses in four different sectors of our broken healthcare system reveals where solutions are actually possible—to make care about people rather than profits. Theresa Brown worked as a oncology nurse for...

The untold story of the Edinburgh doctor who became Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, and his adventures in the criminal underworld of Victorian Britain. Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and...

The best clinical knowledge in America is free to anyone who asks for it. What has been missing is something that can reason over it. That now exists, and I believe it is a real chance to change how medicine works.I spent forty years finding that out the slow way.I built brain monitors...

There are things you learn about people when you take care of them at their most vulnerable.Not the version they show the world.The version that emerges when fear, pain, and uncertainty strip everything else away.What Nurses See When No One Else Is Looking is a reflective, deeply human...

Sie war Krankenschwester. In Deutschland nannten sie sie nur die Putzpolin. Als Ana mit einundvierzig in den Bus nach Westen steigt, hat sie einen Vertrag in der Tasche, ein Wörterbuch, das sie nicht brauchen wird, und eine Zahl im Kopf: wie viel sie schicken muss, damit das Dach hält, der...

From Ada Lovelace to Florence Nightingale, Rosalind Franklin to Tu Youyou—discover the women who changed science forever Imagine a scientist. White lab coat and goggles . . . check! A passing resemblance to Albert Einstein . . . yes, that too. So, most likely it's a man. However, from...

A wife's fight against leukemia. A war that closed the skies. A faith that held.In the spring of 1990, Shahid Malik and his wife, Kaukab, were living a full life in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. They were raising two young daughters in the close-knit expatriate community of Saudi Aramco. Then...

When Gretchen Reb moved to swinging Chicago from sleepy Dubuque, she seemed unstoppable: ambitious and charismatic, her whole life was in front of her. Within a decade, she would be barely recognisable. Poor mental health can afflict anyone and Gretchen soon found herself in a position outside her control, which coincided with one of the darkest chapters in US medical history. Niall Breslin follows the paper trail Gretchen left behind of letters, diaries, photographs, and family memories to uncover the story medicine tried to forget.

'This is a triumph of reporting, and an absolutely compelling exploration of neuroscience and genetics. At its heart, though, it's a poignant, heartfelt story about family and how love sustains even in the most difficult circumstances. Like Kolker's other work, it is full of deep humanity. It's...

A los treinta y seis años y a punto de cumplir una década trabajando como neurocirujano, Paul Kalanithi fue diagnosticado con un cáncer de pulmón en etapa IV. Un día, atendía a pacientes terminales y, al otro, era él quien luchaba por sobrevivir. Cuando solo queda aire narra la transformación de Kalanithi: de ser un ingenuo estudiante de medicina a convertirse en un reconocido neurocirujano y, finalmente, en un paciente y joven padre que enfrentaba su propia mortalidad.

As a child, Kippy's father asked her to whistle — quietly testing for the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy they shared. She never could. But she never stopped trying. That is the heart of The Whistler's Daughter. An inspiring and often humorous memoir about refusing to let a diagnosis...

For more than four decades, Tom Perski has been a pioneering force in low-vision rehabilitation, helping thousands living with macular degeneration reclaim their lives. Now, for the first time, he reveals the deeply personal story behind it all: his own early diagnosis of a rare juvenile form of macular degeneration, the quiet struggles he endured, and the journey that transformed him from patient to pioneer. But this is not just a story of loss—it is a memoir of discovery and clarity.

We are told that time heals all wounds. While time is an unavoidable aspect of any healing process, with brain injury, that approach is not only dismissive, but it can be dangerously misleading. For half a century, Dr. Ingryd Lorenzana navigated the lonely aftermath of a childhood head injury...

In 1987, during a night shift in Dublin, a syringe containing HIV-positive blood pierced Dr. Patrick Treacy's leg. At thirty-one, he went from doctor to patient in an instant, facing years of tests and the possibility that his life might be cut short. Where Angels Dare To Tread follows what came next. Treacy leaves Ireland, works in New Zealand as young asthma patients die from a pattern few are ready to act on, and later finds himself in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, where he treats the wounded, travels toward Halabja, and is detained and interrogated.

From an ER physician and survivor of private violence comes a surprising, unflinching debut literary memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the emergency department—where her patients are wrestling with what feels unspeakable, and so is she. Told with dark humor and hard-won honesty, Dr. Anne Aspler brings listeners into the chaotic world of emergency medicine—and the quieter, messier work of healing her own past.

This is the story of a boy from a small Irish village who became an adventurer, a humanitarian and a doctor to the stars. Part travelogue, part thriller, part celebrity tell-all, you've never found anything quite like it.

An einem Samstagnachmittag im Juli 2024 verändert sich für Sandra Seidenberg, 55 Jahre, innerhalb weniger Stunden alles. Was als Kribbeln in der Hüfte beginnt, wird zur vollständigen Lähmung. Die Diagnose: Rückenmarksinfarkt, eine seltene Erkrankung. Bei lediglich 1% aller Schlaganfälle...

"Inspiring, heartfelt, and brutally honest at times, this is a book that will give women and those who care about them the strength and motivation to persevere . . ."—Seattle Book Review What was it like to survive an illegal abortion, come out as a lesbian, and train to become a doctor in the...

When Patti Bevilacqua woke up one ordinary morning with double vision, she didn't know it was the first of many invisible battles. Within months she had lost the teaching career she loved, moved back to her parents' home to recover, and wondered if her future had just vanished. What followed could have been a story of defeat—but Patti chose a different script. In this candid, hope-filled memoir, Patti invites you on a ride that's equal parts raw, hilarious, and deeply inspiring.