Títulos en Médicos

La lotta contro il cancro di Giacomo, dalla diagnosi alla remissione. Il coraggio e la dignità di una donna. La forza immensa dell'amore materno. Questa è la storia di una ragazza che nella vita aveva tutto ciò che si può desiderare: la favola e l'amore di suo marito, due figli meravigliosi, la popolarità, un lavoro gratificante nato per caso. Ma nella vita, un po' come a scuola, a volte arriva "l'interrogazione a sorpresa".

Grada was only 17 years old when she met her soulmate, Peter. By 19 she was married and had migrated from Holland to live in Peter’s homeland, Tasmania, Australia. Grada lived her dream - homesteading at the "back of beyond" with the love of her life, six children, and a menagerie of farm animals. In 2000 she and Peter opened a wellness clinic in their back yard. At the pinnacle of her life, Grada was hit by a truck - literally. During the near-death experience that followed, Grada had to make the decision to return to her body.

Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career in this "moving memoir" (The New York Times) that's "everything a Jeopardy! fan could want" (The Washington Post). When he debuted as the host of Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek became something like a family...

"Den blå hest" er fortaellingen om et liv med udiagnosticeret Asperger og ADHD. Om den lange og hårde kamp det er at finde sig til rette i tilvaerelsen, når omgivelserne ikke forstår, hvad der rører sig i ens sind - og man så heller ikke selv er meget klogere på det. For Susanne Longhi var opvaeksten svaer og ensom, og voksenlivet blev ligeledes praeget af et indre kaos, der taerede på kraefterne. Først da hendes diagnose endelig blev stillet, fik hun fred i sjaelen og overskud i hverdagen.

Phillip Ahn, MD, is an accomplished family physician and lifelong martial artist, who transformed from a shy and insecure boy to a confident yet reserved and appreciated leader. Throughout his life, Phillip has overcome obstacles to pursue his dreams and encounter unique experiences, like becoming Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat 2.

Today, nursing is one of the most ubiquitous professions in the world, and images of war immediately call to mind nursing the wounded, but it was not long ago that such ideas were relatively primitive. Indeed, schoolchildren are still taught about the revolutionary exploits of Florence Nightingale, the war nurse who is often credited as the founder of modern nursing. Florence Nightingale first came to prominence during the Crimean War in the middle of the 19th century when she helped organize efforts to treat wounded soldiers.

Es difícil explicar cómo la palabra cáncer puede cambiarnos la vida de una manera tan drástica. En el momento en que me diagnosticaron cáncer de seno, me sentía llena de vida; pero, sin saberlo, dentro de mi cuerpo se multiplicaba y crecía ese mal que me acercaba a la muerte.Mi lucha contra el cáncer me ha hecho una mujer más fuerte, más segura, más serena y en paz conmigo misma y con la vida.

A donor mother’s powerful memoir of grief and rebirth that is also a fascinating medical science whodunit, taking us inside the world of organ, eye, tissue, and blood donation and cutting-edge scientific research. When Sarah Gray received the devastating news that her unborn son Thomas was...

The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and ambitious of the new generation. In the 1970s, they each emigrated to the United States to make a new life. Both faced tough obstacles: while Deepak encountered resistance from Western-trained doctors over what he called the mind-body connection, Sanjiv struggled to reconcile the beliefs of his birthplace with those of his new home. Eventually, each brother became convinced that America was the right place to build a life, and the Chopras went on to great achievements.

One of the top bobsledders in the world and leader of the four-man American team, Steven Holcomb had finished sixth in the 2006 Olympics and medaled in nearly every competition he entered. He was considered a strong gold contender for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Talented, aggressive, and fearless, he was at the top of his game. But Steven Holcomb had a dangerous secret. Steven Holcomb was going blind....

A follow up to the original Aneurysms of Life detailing with the experience of getting a Cerebral Angiography and the discovery of additional health challenges and new and old perspectives on life.

Donny Herbert was a hardworking Buffalo city firefighter who, in December 1995, was searching the attic of a burning house when the snow-laden roof collapsed. For six minutes he was without oxygen. A beloved husband, a father of four boys, a neighborhood fixture who was always willing to lend a...

Another Way was written with the aim of raising awareness for people living with various disabilities. I have been writing poetry ever since the age of 10 and live with the challenges of epilepsy. I hope the poems provide joy and inspiration to all, but especially those suffering from any form of disability. I have narrated 11 of the poems from this audiobook title as Another Way was the second poetry book in the series. My Little Book of Poems, which was the first book in the series, has also been turned into an audiobook.

In this book, Prusiner tells the remarkable story of his discovery of prions - infectious proteins that replicate and cause disease but surprisingly contain no genetic material - and reveals how superb and meticulous science is actually practiced with talented teams of researchers who persevere. He recounts the frustrations and rewards of years of research and offers fascinating portraits of his peers as they raced to discover the causes of fatal brain diseases.

Two families came together in the waiting room of a Denver hospital on May 11, 2004, to await kidney transplants for loved ones. In the first operation, Gregg Farber, 32, a real estate executive, donated a kidney to his father, Steve, a 60-year-old Denver lawyer and power broker. In the second, Guatemalan refugee and landscaper Ernesto Delaroca, also 32, donated a kidney to his sister Sandra, 19, a restaurant worker.

After knowing friends with anorexia and being baffled by their behavior, Laura Moisin suddenly found herself prone to the same disease - not eating at all and going weeks at a time consuming nothing but water and the occasional black coffee. Deceiving therapists by misleading them with symptoms of depression, her anorexia is prolonged, and her health deteriorates rapidly.

Two months to live. That's what the doctor says. Sally responds with grace and optimism. Marisa responds by closing herself off. If her mother is going to die before she graduates from high school, why even try. Cancer has already ruined everything. Honest and heartfelt, The Goodbye Diaries offers a touching glimpse into both sides of a terminal diagnosis - the one who will leave and the one who will be left behind.

Just after having produced the first digitally watermarked CD as a graduate student at the prestigious University of Miami School of Music in his early 20s, artist/producer Eric Alexandrakis noticed a lump on the left side of his chest. With no insurance, no ability to work steadily due to the burden of chemotherapy treatments, and no guarantee of survival...attempting to turn his creative dreams into reality seemed like a hopeless impossibility. What followed was a story of determination, inspiration, and creative innovation.

Året är 2011, och Elisabet Höglund diagnosticeras med cancer. En jättelik tumör har upptäckts på hennes bukspottskörtel, och vid en operation tas flera organ bort för att bekämpa sjukdomen. Ingreppet är okomplicerat, och snart är hon på bättringsvägen. Men några veckor senare uppstår en komplikation, och Höglund är nära att förlora livet. Efter att redan ha varit nära döden två gånger kommer nu komplikationerna som klubbslag, under några veckor kämpar hon för sitt liv.

This is Nadina LaSpina's story - from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her, and to her rebellion and her activism in the disability-rights movement.