Títulos en Médicos

"En rejse af usædvanlig menneskelighed, skrevet med lidenskab, engagement og ydmyghed, på baggrund af ufattelige forhold, der overvælder en for hvert skridt." - Michael Mansfield, Queen’s Counsel Kun tre måneder efter deres mor døde af leukæmi, blev lægen Izzeldin Abuelaish’ tre ældste døtre og hans niece dræbt den 16. januar 2009, da deres værelse i famili- ens hjem i Gaza blev sprængt i stumper og stykker af israelske granater.

"3.3.82 Line er nok min bedste veninde, men jeg ville meget hellere have en, som var smart og pæn. Men sådan én gider selvfølgelig ikke være gode venner med mig. Jeg har faktisk ikke rigtig nogen. Det er ret trist. Men jeg har jo min mor og dig, kære dagbog. Jeg er simpelthen nødt til at gå på slankekur nu. Jeg er 70 cm om maven, når jeg slapper af." Anne Refslund Poulsens dagbog fra 1980‘erne er en af de første personlige beskrivelser fra en ung person med anoreksi.

Kan man bli fri från en kronisk sjukdom? När Nadja Öström får sköldkörteldiagnoserna Hashimotos sjukdom och Hypotyreos förändras hennes liv för alltid och hon kastas in i en djungel av hälsoråd och mediciner. Trots en svår och utmanande resa kommer hon ut på andra sidan starkare än någonsin och med nya kunskaper om kost, hälsa och vikten av att se sig själv som en helhet.

Lene Hansson er en dynamo. En aktiv kvinde, der ikke bare taler om sund kost og livsstil, men som konsekvent selv udlever det gode liv med masser af vitaminer og motion. Derfor er det et chok for hende, da hun i efteråret 2009 bliver konstateret alvorligt syg – oven i købet i hjertet!

"I am a doctor." Every year, thousands of medical school graduates utter these four simple words. But as you will hear in Playing God, earning an MD is just the first step to becoming a real physician. In this thrilling and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency training and early practice. Here, you will take a journey through the world of surgery, hospitals, and the practice of medicine unlike any that you have traveled before.

In his acclaimed first memoir, Hot Lights, Cold Steel, Collins wrote passionately about his four-year surgical residency at the prestigious Mayo Clinic. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs turns back the clock, taking listeners from his days as a construction worker to his entry into medical school, expertly infusing his journey to become a doctor with humanity, compassion, and humor. 

With years of experience as a Registered Veterinary Technician, Frannie O’Callaghan offers an unapologetic window into the daily encounters of the humans who take care of pets. This whip-smart but darkly humorous confessional spans from the Patients who bite, claw, urinate, or defecate in scrub pockets. Are the few and farther in-between moments of wagging tails and slobbering tongues worth it?

Kat Ward is a survivor — and this book is her testimony. Having overcome an abusive childhood — in which she was abused by family members, care staff and even celebrities — you would have thought that karma might have dealt her some kinder hands when it came to her adult life. Well, it didn't. After spending the majority of it simply trying to recover from her childhood, she was eventually forced to confront that monster which apparently awaits 1 in 3 of us at some point in our lives: cancer.

Written by a three times cancer survivor, this book is a must-listen for anyone facing and fighting cancer as well as for their caregivers. Called from a scientific background into Christian ministry, Philip has the ideal background to furnish valuable factual advice and spiritual counsel to his listeners. He shares candidly about how God helped him overcome malignant melanoma and prostate cancer and about his present struggles against multiple myeloma.

Risk. Resilience. Reinvention. Tom LeNoble’s life has been anything but ordinary, rising from the “Shack” with no hot water to the heights of Silicon Valley, and helping build some of the world’s most influential companies. He’s been a crowd-favorite performer, a bold leader, and a...

The book is a compilation of short personal medical stories compiled from my 45 years in the practice of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology. Each short story is based on actual events and meant to entertain as well as provide some insight into a career in ER Medicine and the practice of Anesthesia. The style of writing is meant for people with a non medical as well as a medical background. The stories vary from 'you can't make this up' humorous side of practicing medicine to very serious medical care scenarios.

Behind the counter of your local pharmacy lies a world of wisdom you may never have tapped into. In Call the Pharmacist, award-winning pharmacist and women’s health advocate Elizabeth Roddick shares her decades of experience helping thousands of patients make sense of their medicines, lifestyle changes and health challenges.

Life's core is wavered from delight and dismay, teaching us that in our delicate moments of vulnerability, we discover heartfelt associations that attach us to each other and the universe. You will find this deep-seated truth of existence in Brian Sims's book "The Color of Their Tears." This book is crafted with the precision of a surgeon's hand and the soul of a poet; it analyzes the flimsy harmony between expectancy and heartbreak, love and loss.

When firefighter Pat Hardison ran into a burning home, he came out alive—but with injuries so severe, he was unrecognizable. Facing the Fire is his raw, unfiltered true story of survival, a record-breaking face transplant, and the God who never left him in the flames. For the next fourteen years, Pat lived behind skin grafts, pressure masks, and the constant stares of strangers—fighting to be the husband and dad his family needed when every mirror told him to quit. Then came an unexpected call from New York: a chance at the most extensive face transplant ever attempted.

In the quiet hum of an exam room, where stethoscopes listen to more than heartbeats, Dr. Aaron Feingold has spent four decades bearing witness to life’s most raw, absurd, and luminous moments. Beyond being a mere memoir of medicine Cardiology Tales is a symphony of humanity, played through the rhythm of 99 stories that pulse with humor, heartache, and the quiet heroism of ordinary lives.

Can the mind be explained by what we know about the brain? Is a person’s being determined by their body alone or by their mind and body as separate elements? In this incisive and engaging book, Wilder Penfield, whose work pioneered such research, shares insights into these and other questions, providing an in-depth look at the function of the brain and its relationship to the action of the mind.

Jeune médecin urgentiste, le docteur Mathieu Doukhan livre ici un témoignage sans concession sur sa vie quotidienne aux urgences. Joies, peines, amertumes, petits miracles… rien ne lui est épargné ! Ce jeune papa nous entraîne dans un monde parfois abrupt, où des patients improbables croisent des médecins parfois déconcertants. Un univers où les situations ubuesques sont le pain quotidien, où les méandres du système peuvent surprendre, mais surtout, avant tout, un monde plein d'humanité.

In Overcoming Diabetes and Thriving Through Faith and Prayer, Dwight Treadwell shares his story of battling one of the world’s most widespread health challenges—diabetes. Narrated by Ceci Williams, this audiobook takes listeners on a journey of loss, healing, and unshakable faith. More than 830 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, but Dwight’s story stands out as a testament to the human spirit. Once living an active life, Dwight was suddenly faced with one of the most devastating complications of diabetes: the amputation of his foot, followed by his left leg below the knee.

In Custody MD: Fighting for the Woo, Dr. Adwoafuaa Nwokocha delivers a raw, gripping memoir chronicling her descent into the high-stakes hell of family court. What begins as a love story between two med school students unravels into a devastating custody battle against her ex-husband—an elite cardiac surgeon with the money, lawyers, and manipulative tactics to weaponize the legal system. Told with vulnerability, humor, and razor-sharp clarity, this book is far more than a courtroom drama. It's a powerful indictment of how race, gender, and power intersect in modern custody disputes.

Selective Persecution: The Legalization of American Fascism weaves a narrative from Dr. Gold’s personal experience as a frontline doctor, and her forty-eight minutes inside the US Capitol Building on January 6. The author walks listeners through an array of COVID lies and corruption, the course of January 6 itself, and the unfathomable progression of fascist government abuse that followed. She endured a violent FBI raid, extreme malice and misconduct by the Department of Justice, and was sentenced to federal prison amid shocking corruption in the judiciary.