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Cowboys and Indian: A Doctor’s First Year in Texas is an exciting and entertaining account of a doctor’s first year of practice in an underserved Texas hospital. Besides the challenges of being an immigrant and a husband and father, the doctor manages medical emergencies like cardiac arrests, collapsed lungs, industrial accidents, lacerations, and other traumas—all with minimal resources. In the course of that fateful first year, the heart-warming and often hilarious events show medical science at its best.

An African American woman doctor, fresh from her residency training in 1975, Dr. Cornelia Davis chose a less traveled path, a decision that would have profound global ramifications In a historic endeavor by the World Health Organization (WHO) to eradicate smallpox, a disease that had tormented humanity for millennia, Davis was thrust into the heart of India. There, she confronted deeply ingrained sexism and caste discrimination while relentlessly hunting for the last vestiges of this brutal illness.

In “Bean There, Donor That,” author Rick Daynes takes us on his insightful and life-changing journey through the profound act of kidney donation. This deeply personal journal explores the author’s decision to donate to a stranger. It then takes us through the conflicts of denial, rejection, and resilience, in the process of donation. The after-effects, and incredible ongoing relationship of donor and recipient are inspiring.

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...

Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. After winning a Goucher College short story contest judged by H. L. Mencken, Mayfield became friends with Mencken and his circle, then visited with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and hobnobbed with the literati while traveling in Europe after a failed marriage. Back in Tuscaloosa after the war, however, she became increasingly paranoid about perceived conspiracies arrayed against her.

10万人に１人の稀少がん・ジストを患いながらも、”心の免疫力が上がる言葉”を支えに生きる緩和ケア医・大橋洋平先生。

One evening in 1980, ICU Nurse Maryann Foster walked into a patient room expecting nothing out of the ordinary. What she found on the other side of the door, however, changed her life forever.

For the first twenty-seven years of his life, Ben McKelvey didn't spend too much time thinking about his brain, nor much about trauma. He was fit, carefree and happy working as a magazine journalist, writing listicles and doing celebrity junket interviews. Then one day, while boxing, he suffered a stroke. In the time it took for a left hook to be thrown, Ben disconnected from language and therefore the world. He wanted nothing more than to go back to normal life and, after a time, it looked like he had. Only normal life no longer felt normal. Ben's brain had changed, and so had he.

Komm mit, ich nehme Dich mit in meine Depression. Ich zeige Dir, wie das ist, wie sich das anfühlt, was sie angerichtet hat in meinem Leben. Ich zeige Dir die besonderen Momente, die Wende- und Scheidepunkte, wie meine Depression entstanden ist und wo sie eine andere Richtung nahm. Ich bin depressiv seit 52 Jahren, immer wieder anders, immer wieder neu. Glaube mir, ich habe zu erzählen. Schonungslos führe ich Dich in meine emotionalen Abgründe, zeige Dir, dass Depression nichts unberührt lässt und alles durchdringt, jeden Tag und jede Nacht.

Paracelsus, Heilkundler und Naturphilosoph: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

ＮＨＫ、朝日新聞等メディアの注目を集める「がんを生きる緩和ケア医」大橋洋平先生の著書第三弾。長引くコロナ禍、免疫系統に打撃を受けるがん患者にとっては厳しい日々が続く。

Follow a caring woman's unrelenting journey from the valleys of addiction, homelessness, jail, institutions, and near death experience -to the mountaintop of redemption. This memoir provides the listener with practical and proven tools, like the 4C Formula, that supports the listener in developing a voice and vision for their life.

De openhartige biecht van een voormalige spoedarts. Met voorwoord ingelezen door de auteur zelf. De spoedafdeling: een plaats waar je zelf liever niet te veel komt, maar die wel tot de verbeelding spreekt. Elisabet Haesevoets werkte jaren als spoedarts en biedt je een onverbloemde blik achter de schermen van dit spannende en soms ook harde leven. Een reanimatie tussen de brandende assen, een letterlijk gebroken hart, een akelige treinramp, een verborgen zwangerschap,... vanaf de eerste pagina's neemt Elisabet je mee in de meest onwaarschijnlijke situaties en diepmenselijke emoties.

Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in the early years of the twentieth century when tuberculosis was a dreaded disease worldwide. The TB Sanitorium hospital housed those with tuberculosis, offering refuge for patients of all ages afflicted with the pernicious and contagious disease.

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.

Follow Erika on her journey as she writes from the heart in real time about her diagnosis, treatment, and ultimate recovery from an advanced form of breast cancer. Alongside traditional oncology care, Erika's natural curiosity and self-determination led her to explore the holistic therapies of integrative medicine.

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart “It’s Doty’s ability to describe his journey so lyrically, and then his willingness to share his methods, that make this book a gem...

When a military coup in Ghana leads to the abrupt closure of Lally Pia's medical school, she is stranded thousands of miles away from her family - and left with no educational prospects, no money, and a botched American Green Card. But a Sri Lankan priest told Lally's father that she will one day become a "Doctor of Doctors" - a laughable outcome, given her current predicament.

「白血病で予後が良くない９歳の女の子に、“わたし、死んじゃうの？”と聞かれたら、何と答えますか？」