Resultados para "Patiënt" en Biografías y memorias

Han blev landskendt som L:Ron:Harald - Pornogangsteren - den sønderjyske rapper med den grove mund, den vilde Kadett, håndvåben, dåseøl og nøgne damer. Virkeligheden var imidlertid en ganske anden for Lars Jensen. Bag den prangende og bevidst platte facade skjulte sig et følsomt menneske med et skrøbeligt sind, der allerede tre år før gennembruddet blev alvorligt psykisk syg og to gange indlagt på psykiatriske hospitaler - og under hele karrieren som rapper var under medicinsk behandling.

Recalling remarkable cases - and people - from a career launched in the first days of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Paul Seward leads us in his memoir through suspenseful diagnoses and explorations of anatomy. Within the conditions of great stress and rapid decision-making that are routine in the ER, Dr. Seward tells us that medical staff must be more than technicians of the body: They must be restorers of the human.

Maëlle a 30 ans quand elle apprend qu’elle est atteinte d’un cancer du sein métastatique, réputé incurable. En traitement continu depuis 3 ans, elle fait peu à peu l’expérience inattendue des injonctions à la féminité comme principale urgence face à cette maladie qui tue 12 000 femmes par an en France. En partant de son expérience, et en allant à la rencontre d’autres patient.e.s, d’oncologues, de chirurgien.e.s, de psychologues mais aussi d’associations, de travailleurs et travailleuses sociales, d’entrepreneur.e.

Patient is a quirky, humorous, and occasionally poignant romp through the American health care system. After a seemingly mild case of COVID-19, the author finds himself hospitalized with acute renal failure. The connection to COVID-19 is tenuous at best, yet he is examined from head to toe with the ruthless efficiency that only a hospital with the latest technology can accomplish. Scans and tests of every possible type are conducted, eliminating the most dire of diagnoses.

A fast-paced account of a giant of twentieth century medicine, First the Patient details how David Nathan saved patients with his medical skill and rescued institutions with his visionary leadership.

... c'est la question que Maëlle, 30 ans, pose quand elle apprend qu'elle est atteinte d'un cancer du sein métastatique, réputé incurable (qui représente 10 % des cancers du sein). Nous sommes alors en janvier 2016. Dans ce premier épisode, elle retrace son diagnostic, son parcours de soin, son rapport à la féminité avant/après l'annonce de son cancer, ses interrogations sur la norme physique et sociale (il aurait fallu être en couple, vouloir et avoir des enfants), et plus largement son expérience de la marginalité.

Just how do you navigate life with a mental illness? What effect does it have on day-to-day activities and future plans? I’m the Patient Not the Shrink takes you on a journey through an ordinary life lived against extraordinary odds. You won’t find easy answers in this book, but you’ll be given a unique insight into the raw and devastating pain of a mental breakdown. Author Cal Kennedy opens a window to the daily struggle of living with polar disorders and dyspraxia.

This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist's years-long investigation into his father's old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and PhD from the prestigious University of Chicago, but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Arizona.

For years, they came in on weekends to plan and practice—nearly sixty surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists, preparing to harmonize in a vast medical symphony. For the team at Mayo Clinic, it was their most complex surgery to date: a face transplant. At the heart of this event was Andy Sandness. He grappled with feelings of isolation and shame after a disfiguring suicide attempt but was determined to reclaim his future, to be seen as ordinary, and to belong again.

Permanent Present Tense tells the incredible story of Henry Gustav Molaison, known only as H. M. until his death in 2008. In 1953, at the age of 27, Molaison underwent a dangerous "psychosurgical" procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The surgery went horribly wrong, and when Molaison awoke he was unable to store new experiences. For the rest of his life, he would be trapped in the moment. But Molaison’s tragedy would prove a gift to humanity.

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.

רגע לפני — הוא חגג יום הולדת 50 בברצלונה, חש שחייו הם פספוס אחד גדול — ואז התברר שגם נדבק בנגיף המסתורי. אבל דווקא כשהוא מתאשפז בבית חולים, קורה דבר מפתיע. הוא מציל ראש ממשלה, מתערבב בין שירותי ביון, מעורב בהתנקשות מסתורית, עוצר אירוע היסטורי, וכל זאת בלי שירד, ולו לרגע, ממיטת האשפוז. איך הוא עשה את זה, והאם יצליח להציל גם את חייו האישיים?

ही कथा आहे, एका विख्यात मानसोपचार तज्ज्ञाची आणि त्याच्या पेशंटची! कॅथरीन या रुग्णावर अठरा महिने उपचार करणार्‍या मानसोपचारतज्ज्ञ डॉ. ब्रायन वीज़ यांना म्हणावं तसं यश येत नव्हतं. कॅथरीनला सतत भयानक स्वप्नं पडत, अतिचिंतेचे अ‍ॅटॅक्स येत. जेव्हा पारंपरिक उपचारपद्धती तिच्याबाबतीत अयशस्वी ठरल्या, तेव्हा डॉ. वीज़ यांनी संमोहन उपचार पद्धती वापरायची ठरवली आणि त्या उपचारपद्धतीने कॅथरीनला तिचे पूर्वजन्म दिसू लागले. डॉ. वीज़ थक्क झाले, कॅथरीनच्या सद्य जन्मातल्या सर्व आजारांची, प्रश्‍नांची उत्तरं तिच्या पूर्वजन्मात दडली आहेत, हे समजल्यावर! त्यांना आश्‍चर्य वाटलंच, पण मनात साशंकताही होती.

At the age of 28, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally whacked him in the guts, after all. But what he didn't expect was how being a patient, and a young one at that, would make him feel. Why hadn't he been better prepared for the embarrassment and vulnerability of lying naked on the radiation table?

“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless...

He never saw the moment on the end of his bed thinking about the nature of the world resulting in him losing touch with reality. But it was the moment he broke through the pressures in the west: to be better, work harder, and ultimately chase your dreams. That he realized nothing meant anything. The only purpose in life was to laugh when something was funny, cry when something was sad, eat when you were hungry, and enjoy every fleeting moment. Being a disciplined, calculated, accomplished engineer, this new paradigm didn’t fit in with the persona he had spent a lifetime creating.

Imagine what it would be like to one day wake up and find that you were suddenly completely blind. This is what happened to Vanessa Potter. Her condition is unique. It has no name. Over the course of the next six months, Vanessa slowly recovered her vision. This mesmerising account tells the story of Patient H69 in her own words, based on these detailed diaries she kept during her time of blindness and through the scientific research that was to follow.

A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and some are quite literally transformed by the request.

Was passiert, wenn ein Komiker die Psychiatrie überlebt? "Hierzulande macht gerade der Comedian Oliver Polak ähnlich schamlose, kluge Witze wie Louis C.K.", schreibt Die Welt, "das macht zumindest Hoffnung für den deutschen Humor." Doch wie soll man als Stand-up-Comedian nicht wahnsinnig werden in einem Land, "in dem alle lustigen Leute bereits umgebracht wurden" (Robin Williams)? Nach seinem Bestseller und einer dreijährigen Tour erleidet Polak einen Totalzusammenbruch. Diagnose: schwere Depression. Einzige Rettung: zwei Monate Psychiatrie.

THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn’t expect, changing their entire outlook on life. This inspiring and deeply moving book is the...