Títulos en Médicos

Kort efter födseln började Gabriellas tillvaro på intensivvårdsavdelningen. Hon lider av ett tillstånd som gör att hon inte kan andas i sömnen, och efter ett års utredning är läkarna tveksamma till om hon ens kan få något som kan kallas ett rimligt liv. Den sommaren spenderar föräldrarna så mycket tid som möjligt med Gabriella i sjukhusets stora park, innan de måste fatta ett fruktansvärt beslut.

PORUSZAJĄCA KSIĄŻKA O MIŁOŚCI I MEDYCYNIE. O DZIAŁANIU MÓZGU W EKSTREMALNEJ SYTUACJI. O HEROICZNEJ WALCE O RODZINĘ, GODNOŚĆ I NADZIEJĘ. W 2011 roku u męża dr Lisy Shulman, dr. Williama Weinera, zdiagnozowano raka. Zmarł siedemnaście miesięcy później. Oboje byli neurologami. NAGLE Z LEKARZY STALI SIĘ PACJENTAMI. Neurolog jest ekspertem w nauce o mózgu, jednak nikt nie jest dobrze przygotowany na kolejne etapy walki ze śmiertelną chorobą. Ta książka jest poruszającym zapisem przemyśleń obojga lekarzy.

Ferdinand Sauerbruch, NS-Sympathisant oder Widerstandskämpfer? Die sensationelle Biografie des größten deutschen Chirurgen. Ungeachtet seiner medizinischen Verdienste zählt Ferdinand Sauerbruch zu den umstrittensten Ärzten der Zeitgeschichte. In den Jahrzehnten nach dem Krieg dominierte in den Medien ein positives, fast heroisches Bild des Menschen und Mediziners, der ab 1928 als Professor für Chirurgie an der Berliner Charité arbeitete.

A più di trent'anni dalla morte, la figura di Franco Basaglia, il suo lavoro e la famosa legge che ha portato alla chiusura dei manicomi, continuano a suscitare grande consenso, ma anche molte critiche. L'audiolibro, racconto di una vita, cerca di ricondurre la vicenda di Basaglia - tra l'antifascismo, il dopoguerra, l'università e la direzione degli ospedali psichiatrici di Gorizia e Trieste - all'interno dei mutamenti epocali che coinvolsero la società e la cultura italiane.

Thaïs vient de fêter ses deux ans. Il lui reste quelques mois à vivre. Incapable d'ajouter des jours à la vie sa maman va ajouter de la vie aux jours.

A life-threatening illness crushes the world around you and around those you love. How do we cope with diagnosis physically, emotionally, and spiritually? How do we move on? What are the most helpful ways to support others in crisis? In the end, what does it all mean? The author shares her most personal thoughts, fears, and triumphs over the most challenging year of her life. The voices of friends and family members ring true and move the listener to a powerfully emotional and honest reflection of one's own beliefs and life's purpose.

Stuart Jamieson's story is the story of four decades of advances in heart surgery. Taut, elegantly crafted, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R. 

In this sequel to Silent Siren: Memoirs of a Lifesaving Mortician, ride along with mortuary removal technician Matthew Franklin Sias as he cares for the deceased in rural Washington State. Step into the hidden world of death care and explore the challenge of removing the deceased from the often-difficult, regularly awkward, and sometimes downright bizarre circumstances in which they die, the art and science of embalming, and the intrigue of forensic pathology.

A 23-year veteran of emergency medical services, paramedic Matthew Sias took a detour in his career to pursue the death-care business and found a complementarity between two seemingly divergent careers. Silent Siren: Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician is the record of some of the more memorable calls he has responded to through the years.   

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.

The truly inspirational account of living positively with dementia. Christine Bryden was a top civil servant and single mother of three children when she was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 46. Since then she has gone on to challenge almost every stereotype of people with dementia by...

These stories from the life and medical career of a Navy SEAL turned doctor are surprising, riveting, and inspiring. A family physician delivering babies, managing disease and trauma, and dealing with death, discovers new dimensions when he goes to war in Iraq. Treating the military, civilians, and their families, "Dr. Bob" experienced tremendous joy, unbearable heartache, and deep gratitude. He shares those emotional experiences in this deeply personal memoir.

Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately - childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared - they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end. 

When Laura Jensen Walker was diagnosed with breast cancer on her first wedding anniversary, she found humor to be healing in the midst of terrifying circumstances. In this energetic and hope-filled book, she draws on her faith and her sense of humor to encourage others going through the same thing. From discovering that "bald is beautiful" to navigating the world of saline breast implants, Walker recounts the highs and lows of coping with cancer. 

He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of Jazz Age New Orleans and the operating theaters of pre-war Europe, to the battlefields of World War II and the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina.  

What is the price of honor? It took 10 years for Vietnam War Nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question - and the answer was a heavy one. 

When you are told that you have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can't function. You are asked to make decisions about treatment almost immediately, when you are not in your right mind. And yet you pull yourself together and start asking questions. Beside you is your doctor, whose job it is to solve the awful puzzle of bone marrow gone wrong. The two of you are in it together. In When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael Sekeres, a leading cancer specialist, takes listeners on the journey that patient and doctor travel together.  

Following the trail of an unexpected family connection, acclaimed journalist Pam Fessler has unearthed the lost world of the patients, nurses, doctors, and researchers at Carville who struggled for over a century to eradicate Hansen's disease, the modern name for leprosy. Amid widespread public anxiety about foreign contamination and contagion, patients were deprived of basic rights - denied the right to vote, restricted from leaving Carville, and often forbidden from contact with their own parents or children.  

What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? This riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology and enduring questions about who Mary Mallon really was. How did her name become synonymous with deadly disease?

Empty Hands is the inspiring memoir of Zulu nurse and healthcare activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, against seemingly insurmountable odds Sister Abegail earned her nursing degree and began work as a community...