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واحدٌ من أمتع كتب السيرة فهو يتحدَّث عن حياة الدكتورة "توحيدة عبدالرحمن" والتي تُعتبر أول طبيبة تمَّ تعيينها في الحكومة المصرية عام 1933. يدخل بنا هذا الكتاب إلى بيت الدكتورة لنتعرَّف على عائلتها وطفولتها وكيف درست في أول مدرسة حكومية للبنات وكيف تمَّ ابتعاثها لدراسة الطبّ في بريطانيا في عهد الملك فؤاد الأول وسبب نجاحها على الرَّغم من نظرة المجتمع والنّاس في ذلك الوقت للفتاة وتعليمها فكيف بسفرها لوحدها.

The follow up to Suzanne's Best of Year debut memoir, FRONTAL MATTER: GLUE GONE WILD, STARGAZING is a humorous look at piecing a life back together after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Poate că nimic nu ne pregătește pentru confesiunile brutal de sincere ale unui copil diferit de restul lumii, ajuns la maturitate. Patric Gagne a avut curajul să relateze cu lux de amănunte drumul de la inocență și deznădejde la maturitate și speranță. De la condamnare socială și respingere la prețuire publică și acceptare. Este vorba despre o aventură năucitoare prin labirintul tenebros al unei afecțiuni mintale care oferă, prea des, numai perspective sumbre. Dar apare o scânteie. Desigur, dragostea. E singura lumină călăuzitoare.

Lewy Body Blues: A Family’s Roller Coaster Experience with Lewy Body Dementia is an insider’s perspective on how one family adapted and learned to cope with this incredibly challenging and progressively debilitating disease. Based on a personal journey and filled with facts and strategies for handling Lewy Body Dementia, this book is essential listening for anyone desiring to learn more about this little-known brain disorder.

In No Woman Left Behind, Grant recounts her decision to abandon a promising advertising career, and the ups and downs of building Silicon Valley–based Fistula Foundation from a modest start-up into the global leader in fistula treatment. Through vivid firsthand accounts of surgeons toiling in remote corners of Africa and Asia, we see inside the fight to restore hope to some of the world’s most vulnerable women.

An estimated tens of millions of Americans live with conditions that elude diagnosis, often navigating a healthcare system that fails to recognize or effectively address their suffering. Journalist Alexandra Sifferlin has spent years investigating the diagnosis crisis in America—what it means to live without a diagnosis and how both medical and patient communities are working to improve the diagnostic process.

A book for psychotherapists and their clients — and for anyone who wants to make the journey from shame to unshame. Carolyn Spring, author of ‘Recovery is my best revenge: my experience of trauma, abuse and dissociative identity disorder’, documents in this, her second book, her journey through psychotherapy to heal and resolve trauma-based shame, which had resulted in a catastrophic mental breakdown in her early thirties and an eventual diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID).

In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself. While polio was being cured, antibiotics were being discovered, and cancer research was developing, the mental health world had no wins. Asylums were full and nobody had figured out how to fix insanity—specifically schizophrenia, the severest mental illness. Scientists became convinced that if they could engineer a pill to create madness, then they could cure it.

ഞാന്‍തന്നെ സാക്ഷി' മലയാളത്തില്‍ ഇതുവരെ ഉണ്ടായിട്ടില്ലാത്ത ജനുസ്സില്‍ പെട്ട ഒരു അപൂര്‍വ്വ സുന്ദരകൃതിയാണ്. ആത്മകഥയും, വൈദ്യചരിത്രവും, രോഗവിവരണങ്ങളും ചേര്‍ന്ന ഒരു കഥക്കൂട്ടം.

In this heartfelt and often humorous memoir, the author shares her unconventional path through childhood, grief, creativity, and academic success—all shaped by a unique way of learning and seeing the world. From being Dux of Business College to earning a Master of Arts with Excellence, she reveals how “thinking differently” wasn’t a setback, but a quiet superpower that guided her healing, her teaching, and her creative life.

"Operating with God: A Surgeon's Stories of Emunah/Faith" by Dr. James Elist is a captivating journey through the life of a prominent surgeon, driven by his unwavering connection to His Creator. This remarkable memoir explores Dr. Elist's career, filled with unexpected encounters, Divine providence, and life-altering decisions. Dr. Elist is keenly aware of how God's hand weaves through his everyday experiences, and teaches us to be similarly attentive.

In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV through contaminated blood products.

Work over load. Constantly changing policies. Increasing bureaucratic regulations. These are just a few of the challenges health care providers face every day; Challenges that limit the ability to provide excellent patient care. After being blinded and suffering catastrophic injuries at the hands of a drunk driver, Marcus Engel witnessed health care from the other end of the stethoscope. Through 300 hours of reconstructive facial surgery, and years of hospitalization, rehab and recovery, Marcus witnessed firsthand, the good, the bad and the ugly of patient care.

Mother of Courage is the inspiring true story of a young woman who loses both arms in a boating accident, yet valiantly finishes dental school, marries, raises two boys, teaches at an historically Black medical college, and becomes a nationally known advocate for people with disabilities. With grace, humor, faith, and a large dose of determination, Margaret Chanin transforms her tragic physical loss into a triumph of the human spirit—and shares her light with everyone she meets.

When Katherine Bailey received a devastating phone call about her daughter Liz's sudden cardiac arrest, her world turned upside down. In "Silent Scream: Surviving a Mother's Nightmare through Faith: A Memoir" Kathy takes us on an emotional journey through her family's battle for Liz's life. This account captures the heart-wrenching moments in the ICU, the roller coaster of medical updates, and the deep impact on Liz's husband and children. With raw honesty, Kathy shares the family's struggle, their moments of hope, and the immense support from friends and the community.

When Vida is born to Mina and husband Freddie, it is love at first sight. She is perfect. But it is also clear from early on that something is not right. This is the story of how Vida came to be diagnosed with rare blood disorder Diamond Blackfan Anaemia, and how Mina and her family’s lives were transformed by the experience of having a child with such a serious condition. Together, they move with fierce tenacity into a future that Mina never expected, but one that is rich with love, hope and community.

Wise and warm, the book makes an important contribution to the understanding of Parkinson's disease but is also a rich and heartfelt memoir of creativity and a life being well-lived, even as the challenges mount. It is a story of vital interest to us all as we face our own fragility, and indeed, mortality.

We’ve all had our good days where we’ve wished for time to freeze and wanted some memories to stay with us forever. Life changes and this is inevitable. We cannot always get what we wish for and acceptance of this fact is wherein lies the beauty of it all. It takes knowing sadness to know what happiness is, listening to noise to appreciate silence, and dealing with one’s absence to value presence. Some people just want to live a happy life, and Angela was certainly one of them. Living her life to its fullest, she was convinced that it couldn’t get any better or any worse.

A doctor's firsthand account of the devastating impacts of gun violence and how we can end this epidemic. Gun violence has become the leading cause of death for children and has decreased the lifespan of American adults by 2. 5 years. Beyond the statistics are the untold stories of doctors and health care workers who work to save the lives of victims of gun violence. In this powerful and moving book, Cedric Dark takes listeners into the harrowing experiences of these physicians. Dark intertwines these stories with an examination of policies that could save countless lives.

A compilation of the best ER stories that have happened to me. They are all completely true. People always want to hear "nurse stories" and I think that these stories are what they want to hear. You can bet on a lot of raised eyebrows while listening to this! These can invoke powerful emotions and give a glimpse into healthcare and show how some people really are.