検索キーワード： 医療

Full of unforgettable encounters, Far and Wild shines a light on the deep bond between humans and animals and celebrates empathy, connection, and the extraordinary impact one person can have on the world In this charming memoir, Dr. Cliff opens up about his life and travels as a veterinarian without borders, sharing insights from his surprising, funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and often dangerous work.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia. “A gripping real-life horror story of dementia, love and grief...

Fans of Oliver Sacks and Gabor Maté will be intrigued by this journey into the human brain, full of fascinating stories—both personal and professional—by a neurologist who’s dedicated her life to understanding the body’s most complex organ.

When Nick learns that his father’s been diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer, he begins a painful journey from trying to save his father to simply loving him. As the disease progresses, he must confront his sexual compulsions, fear of abandonment, and the possibility that the man he has always relied on to fix things may soon be gone.

From the award-winning author of A Ghost in the Throat comes a time-traversing, form-defying, genre-morphing story of a reader unraveling the legacies of a fabled asylum and the women who haunt its halls. This program is read by the author. In Cork, Ireland, a derelict Victorian mental hospital...

Read by the author and father of young Jimmy and Stewart, Ten Thousand Jupiters, A Memoir, provides an intimate look at the world of childhood cancer in 1992. Diagnosed with what doctors at Texas Children's Hospital call, "the best childhood cancer," young Stewart pushes the envelope in cancer research by participating in a "conscious sedation" study that forever changes hospital protocols for young children during bone marrow tests and spinal taps.

Dr. Wayne Z. Burkhead Jr. is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in shoulder disorders, and being special, in Dallas, Texas. He has lectured on an international level designed medical devices, and authored book chapters, scientific papers, and a Textbook, Rotator Cuff Disorders. As a youth, he fancied himself an artist but, ended up sculpting bones. He also fancied himself a musician but lacked talent. He never fancied himself as a doctor, especially a surgeon.

In Tainted Love: A Bipolar Memoir, one impulsive decision sets in motion the compounding chaos and allure of four love stories—igniting in seduction and collapsing in disillusionment.

Lynette Charity’s grit, grief, and gratitude will have readers rooting for this timeless memoir about growing up in the early ‘60s South and overcoming all the odds against her to become a doctor in a time when the idea of a Black woman physician was practically unheard of. At nine years old...

He was not a doctor. He was admitted to the Academy of Medicine by a majority of exactly one vote, and once, after explaining to that same Academy where chicken cholera comes from, he was challenged to a duel by an eighty-year-old orthopedic surgeon who did not believe in germs and did not intend to start. Louis Pasteur also saved more human lives than anyone else alive in his century. The Invisible World follows him from a tanner's yard in the Jura to a crypt lined with gold mosaic, and argues that everything he did came out of a single stubborn conviction formed when he was twenty-five...

"No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the West, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to...

Wie behält man die Nerven, wenn von der eigenen Arbeit ein Menschenleben abhängt? Ein einzigartiger Einblick in die Gedanken- und Gefühlswelt des Spitzenchirurgen Rüdiger Lange. Operationen am offenen Herzen sind die Königsdisziplin der Chirurgie. Rüdiger Lange erzählt von seinen wichtigsten Operationen – und von den Abgründen, über die nur wenige der absoluten Spitzenoperateure zu sprechen wagen.

When Hassan Torabi arrived in Denmark as a refugee from Iran, he quickly became the big hope of the local wrestling club. When he participated in the first Danish reality TV show, the Danish version of “Survivor”, he became known throughout the country as the warm and helpful man who had...

***** Berlingske ***** Journalisten Elizabeth Holmes (f. 1984) har altid været bange for nåle. Hendes livsmission var at opfinde en nem, smertefri og billig metode til at tage blodprøver, der kunne afdække en lang række sygdomme. Som 19-årig droppede hun ud af universitetet og stiftede...

Reversing Time illustrates Dr. Sashi Kuppala’s two-year-long personal journey to lower his biological age through science-based lifestyle choices. In this book, he explains why biological age matters and how exercise, nutrition, stress reduction, and targeted supplements led to measurable improvements in his biological age. Each strategy is examined honestly, including what worked, what didn’t, and why. The narrative combines medical insights with personal experience rather than abstract theories.

A psychotherapist with terminal cancer approaches the end of his life with the understanding that he is being called home and that cancer is the body’s response to the call to facilitate the journey. How he comes to this realization is documented as a journey starting when he discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and psychedelic medicine work in the same year, 20 years before his diagnosis.

Der Löwe von Lahr erzählt die Geschichte der Löwenapotheke in Lahr von ihren Anfängen im 17. Jahrhundert bis zu ihrer Schließung im Jahr 2026. Es ist die Geschichte von Apothekern, Forschern, Bürgern und Familien, die über Generationen hinweg Verantwortung trugen, Wissen weitergaben und den Menschen ihrer Stadt halfen. Briefe an Fürsten, alte Rezeptbücher, wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, Familienerinnerungen und historische Dokumente verweben sich zu einer lebendigen Erzählung über Arbeit, Pflicht, Wandel und Zeit.

'There is something very special about finding a spectacular objective, looking forward to it for a long time and then achieving exactly what one has set out to do.' Newly retired and immersed in the logistical and bureaucratic maze of planning an expedition to Chombu–an unclimbed Himalayan peak in the Indian state of Sikkim–Mick Fowler's life is turned upside down by a cancer diagnosis.

Near shipwrecks, exotic wild animals, nasty tropical diseases, and dedicated mission work. Follow Anna from her childhood in Illinois to India and China as she seeks to serve her Lord as a missionary and doctor for over 50 years.

Nach einer Routineoperation wacht eine junge Krankenschwester während der Narkose auf. Sie hört Stimmen, spürt Berührungen und erlebt die Operation bei vollem Bewusstsein, unfähig, sich zu bewegen oder bemerkbar zu machen. Was als medizinischer Albtraum beginnt, zerstört nach und nach ihr gesamtes Leben. Panikattacken, Angst und verdrängte Erinnerungen aus der Kindheit brechen mit voller Wucht hervor. Während sie gegen Ärzte, Gutachter und ein Krankenhaus kämpft, beginnt gleichzeitig eine viel tiefere Reise: die Suche nach der Wahrheit über sich selbst.