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Kay’s books, looking back on his medical career, give an insight into the trials and tribulations of life as a junior doctor. His latest title, Undoctored, looks into Kay’s life as a medical student and how things have been since leaving the medical world. We chatted to Adam Kay about the one good thing Matt Hancock did, how mental health is regarded in medicine, and whether or not Adam would say he is a bad patient.

Margaret Sanger, Medizinerin und Frauenrechtlerin: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

What is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome? Daniel Freeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent thirty years at the vanguard of paranoia research and treatment. This remarkable and moving book tells the story of that journey. For decades, conventional wisdom held that paranoia was only experienced by people with severe mental health problems and little could be done to rectify its disastrous effects.

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brains, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide - a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive abilities.

As one of the few pediatric palliative care doctors in the United States, Bob Macauley was used to people saying, “I’m so glad I don’t have your job.” To which he would explain that palliative care is more about living than dying, then offer to share some of the inspiring stories he witnessed on a daily basis. He might mention that also being an Episcopal priest helped him console people in the hardest situations. But he never revealed the true reason for his career choice: he didn’t want anyone else to hurt the way he had when he was a kid.

Pluto destroys and transforms. The first book in the Pluto Returns series, Hex the Patriarchy, follows Lilith through an extreme, multi-year case of medical gaslighting. Over the course of the COVID 19 pandemic and into summer 2023, Lilith is dismissed as crazy by her doctors, her family, and her closest friends. They insist she can’t be sick, and that she can’t know the things she claims to know. Lilith is told to call a psychiatrist while her illness nearly kills her. She begs friends and family for help, only to see her social supports disintegrate around her.

A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria is expansive in its range of references, from the writings of Franz Kafka to original yet accessible readings of theorists like Lauren Berlant. Whether he is discussing Seinfeld, John Donne, or his own hypochondriac past, Rees reveals himself to be a wry and perceptive critic, exploring the causes—and the costs—of our desire for certainty. With wit and erudition, Hypochondria demonstrates both the rewards and the perils of reading (too) closely the common but typically overlooked aspects of our everyday lives.

From her earliest days as a junior doctor to becoming one of Ireland's leading specialists, she shares extraordinary stories of the children she's treated, the families who've loved them, and the moments when life hung by a thread. It is about how the healing begins with a doctor bearing witness and being present. It is about what it means to offer hope when certainty is gone.

Liz Casper is a former medical doctor, artis, and author from the Pacific Northwest. In her first book, BRILLIANT, BEAUTIFUL, BIPOLAR, Liz shares with us her personal journey before, during, and after her diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The book, set in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, chronicles Liz’s experience both living with and healing from this devasting diagnosis.

Sarah Perry's father-in-law, David, died at home nine days after a cancer diagnosis and having previously been in good health. The speed of his illness outstripped that of the NHS and social care, so the majority of nursing fell to Sarah and her husband. They witnessed what happens to the body and spirit, hour by hour, as it approaches death.

Broeder Joep vertelt eerlijke, ontroerende en grappige verhalen uit de ouderenzorg. Joep van Poorten werkt als verzorgende in een verpleeghuis in Eindhoven, met (veelal) bewoners met dementie. Op Instagram en TikTok laat hij zien dat de zorg veel meer is dan alleen maar billen wassen. En dat slaat dankzij zijn humor, likeability en gouden (zorg)hart enorm aan. In dit boek neemt Joep de luisteraar mee de afdeling op en zijn leven in. Kijk mee over zijn schouder en ontdek hoe bijzonder, aangrijpend en soms zwaar, maar ook leuk en grappig werken in de zorg kan zijn.

Wereldwijd sterven jaarlijks 8 miljoen mensen aan de gevolgen van roken en een veelvoud van hen wordt ernstig chronisch ziek. Sigaretten zijn zó verslavend dat ten minste 60% van de kinderen die één sigaret uitproberen dagelijks gaan roken. Hoe jonger iemand begint, hoe ernstiger de verslaving. Wanda de Kanter zet als longarts helder uiteen wat de effecten van roken en tabaksverslaving zijn. Daarnaast schetst ze hoe de tabaksindustrie en haar kompanen al meer dan vijftig jaar steeds manieren vinden om hun dodelijke producten aan de man te brengen.

"Le voyage - ce voyage-là du moins - est pour moi terminé. A partir de demain, mieux : à partir de cet instant, tout est neuf. Je poursuis mon chemin. Demain, comme tous les jours d'ici ou d'ailleurs, sur ce versant ou sur l'autre, est désormais mon jour de naissance."

Nine million Americans are touched by aneurysms during their lifetimes. This is one story of love. Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of the author's harrowing experience of an aneurysm and his road to recovery. It is a journey of love and devotion and a clash of medical beliefs and countercultures.

This story is a glimpse into the journey of our amazing and inspirational son, Will, and his brave battle through two rare illnesses. It is a story of pain and tragedy, that brought with it a never-ending bond of love and hope....

Polly Morland was clearing her late mother’s house when she found a battered paperback fallen behind the family bookshelf. Opening it, she was astonished to see an old photograph of the remote, wooded valley in which she lives. The book was A Fortunate Man, John Berger’s classic account of a country doctor working in the same valley more than half a century earlier. This chance discovery led Morland to the remarkable doctor who serves that valley community today, a woman whose own medical vocation was inspired by reading the very same book as a teenager.

Dr. William Sargant ran a lucrative private practice and published multiple books on psychiatry, and he was awarded the Starkey medal and prize by the Royal Society of Health for his work on psychiatric medicine. But what he was best known for was the apogee of his career: the Sleep Room in Ward Five. This was a dark gallery where patients selected by Sargant were subjected to deep narcosis, sleeping for more than twenty-one hours per day for weeks at a time, and roused only for sessions of electroconvulsive therapy.

Elke bevalling kan positief zijn en dat is precies wat verloskundige Geke Born wil vertellen. Met Goed bevallen schreef zij een boek waar elke (aanstaande) ouder enorm veel kracht en motivatie uit kan halen. Voor veel ouders behoort een zwangerschap en bevalling tot de meest indrukwekkende ervaringen in hun leven. Geke Born begeleidde als verloskundige honderden bevallingen en vraagt zich af hoe het toch komt dat we elkaar vooral de negatieve ervaringen vertellen.

More of: You can't make this stuff up. A collection of true, short stories from the experiences that made me who I am. Some are funny, some serious, some sad, some empowering. Starting with some stories from my youth, then a bunch of stories of mostly medical related happenings.

"Findest du mich zu dick?" Immer wieder stellt Kathi dieselbe Frage. Denn Kathi ist magersüchtig. Ihr Leben besteht aus Abnehmen, Laufen und Kraftsport. Ihre Freundin Magersucht ist stets bei ihr, als Kathi immer weiter abmagert, die Haare vermehrt ausfallen und ihr bald jegliche Energie fehlt. Jedes Gramm weniger, das die Waage anzeigt, ist für die junge Frau eine Bestätigung, dass sie auf dem richtigen Weg ist. Dass sie ein Problem hat, merkt Kathi erst, als ihr Körper streikt und es fast zu spät ist. Mit nur 39 Kilogramm Körpergewicht wird sie in einer Spezialklinik aufgenommen.