Títulos en Médicos

Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments - Nome, Alaska. That’s what happen to Dr. Sims. His plans to become a pediatric surgeon were drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the army to serve as a MASH surgeon in Vietnam, he was offered a commission in the US Public Health for assignment in Anchorage, Alaska, where he was scheduled to act as chief of pediatrics at the Alaska Native Medical Center.

A deeply touching and uplifting view of the world through different eyes, and a roadmap to finding bliss in the simplest of things. Zena Cooper lives a full life, in which she uses her senses to examine and explore the world around her. She does all that without one thing many of us take for...

This gripping memoir about what it means to face uncertainty details the plans Janine had for her family and her life that were gutted by her then 10-year-old son Mason’s diagnosis of a cancerous brain tumor, only to be followed by her own cancer diagnosis. All Janine Urbaniak Reid ever wanted...

Erstmals beschreibt ein Notarzt den Alltag im Rettungshubschrauber. Dabei schildert Dr. Tino Lorenz nicht nur mit chirurgischer Präzision...

"27 april 2015: Jag stod inne på toaletten och stirrade på mig själv i spegeln. Lång mörkblå sjukhuskofta över den vita särken. I övrigt såg jag frisk ut, med håret i tofs, osminkad, men fräsch. Jag lyfte upp mobiltelefonen och tog en selfie rätt in i spegeln. En bild på mig själv lutad mot det vita kaklet bakom mig. Det fanns något hårt i min mage. I morgon skulle jag sövas och skäras upp. Äggstockarna skulle bort, bukhinnan också, äggledarna, livmodern och blindtarmen. Allt som kunde avvaras. Ifall det hårda i min mage var cancer."

We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet - a few innovations notwithstanding - a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was 50 years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must.

Quando Pietro Bartolo, medico di Lampedusa, vide Anila per la prima volta rimase di sasso. Quella bambina non avrà avuto più di dieci anni. Che cosa ci faceva una creatura così piccola, da sola, in una nave piena di naufraghi disperati? Di solito, ragionò, i bambini di quell'età arrivano qui in Italia accompagnati dai genitori, o da un amico di famiglia o da qualche altro adulto conosciuto lungo il viaggio.

Wikipedia definisce bigiotteria gli oggetti in cui "la valenza estetica compensi la modestia del valore intrinseco dei componenti". È esattamente quello di cui si occuperà "Bigiotteria": significativi reperti dell'attuale fase evolutiva che vengono spesso giudicati irrilevanti. In "Love and Sex with Robots", scritto da David Levy, ricercatore inglese ed esperto di intelligenza artificiale presso l'Università di Maastricht, l'autore formula la profezia che entro il 2025 sarà normale per l'essere umano intrattenere relazioni sentimentali e sessuali con i robot, fino a stabilire con loro legami duraturi simili al matrimonio.

Giovanni Cupidi non è nato per arrendersi. Questa convinzione lo accompagna da sempre, soprattutto da quando, all'età di tredici anni, è diventato tetraplegico. Da quel giorno tutto è cambiato, tutto è diventato più difficile - alzarsi dal letto, vestirsi, spostarsi - e di colpo la vita si è trasformata in una sfida continua. Ma nonostante questo Giovanni è andato avanti e ha affrontato la sua difficile situazione con coraggio, forza e determinazione.

Sono più interessanti le storie belle o le storie tristi, quelle nere o quelle rosa? Le storie sono storie, e raccontano la vita.

Just a Step is the story of one of Britain's most inspirational and courageous women, Leanne Grose. After a routine check-up following a suspected sprained ankle, further tests showed that she had cancer at just 25. In 2003, Leanne underwent surgery to remove her left leg. Despite the difficulties she faced, Leanne went on to appear on Jade's PA and starred in her own exercise DVD, Leanne's Chair Workout. With gritty determination, an incredible spirit and sheer zest for life, Leanne Grose is an inspirational young woman. This is her amazing story.

Wondering Who You Are braids the story of Sonya and Richard's relationship and those memories he could no longer conjure together with his fateful days in the hospital and through a marriage no longer grounded on decades of shared experience.

As if juggling a life with half-a-dozen kids, including triplets, isn’t enough, Steve Tate receives the life-altering news that one of his triplets, Hayes, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The once-star collegiate football player finds himself fighting for his son’s life. This memoir takes you through the various challenges he faced raising a family of six kids and balancing a career, all while his son battled the odds. Both Steve and his high-school sweetheart, Savanna, found hope and happiness through the example of their 20-month-old son Hayes.

Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. The Other Side of the War reveals the war as experienced by the thousands of women volunteered to work in hospitals and for the Sanitary Commission, the organization that advocated better practices and lobbied for increased supplies. Katharine Prescott Wormeley was one of those volunteers, an American nurse in the Civil War, as well as author, editor, and and one of America’s best-known translators of French language literary works.

Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter, Rosemary, attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the queen of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And yet Rosemary was intellectually disabled - a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family.

What if the dreaded world of Alzheimer's was also a world of emotional discovery? Eugenia Zukerman's poetry and simple prose, both heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational, ushers the listener into her world as she unflinchingly examines familial loyalties, moments from her past and present, and the need to face an uncertain future due to the diagnosis of a condition that she truly hopes "will remain unnamed."

While everyone knows of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the viral craze that swept the nation in summer 2014, too few know the truly inspirational story behind it. Pete Frates was a man at war with his own body, a man whose love for others was unshakable. He was a man who refused to fight alone and, in so doing, mobilized a global army to combat one of the most devastating diseases on earth: ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a 20th-century icon - a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people.

After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of 25, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generationIndian American, had to relearn everything: how to eat, how to walk and speak, even things as basic as his sexual orientation. With humor and insight, he describes the events of that day - his brain exploded just before his brother's wedding - as well as the long, difficult recovery period. In the process, he introduces listeners to his family - his principal support group, as well as a constant source of frustration and amazement.

At nineteen years old, Nicole C. Kear's biggest concern is choosing a major - until she walks into a doctor's office in midtown Manhattan and gets a life-changing diagnosis. She is going blind, courtesy of an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and has only a decade or so before lights-out. Instead of making preparations as the doctor suggests, Kear decides to carpe diem and make the most of the vision she has left. She joins a circus school, tears through boyfriends, travels the world, and through all these high jinks, she keeps her vision loss a secret.