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“I know where I’m going. I’m still myself. I just can’t remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I’ll say to myself, What are we going to do? How long are we staying? It’s like I’m talking to my other self—the self I used to be...

The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm, and how...

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing...

Arriving in 1970s’ London as a fresh-faced Canadian, Bruce Fogle assumed that because he knew the language, he would understand the English. As a graduate of the world’s best veterinary school, he also thought his profession would come naturally to him. He quickly learned not to make...

On Good Friday 2010, Melanie Reid fell from her horse, breaking her neck and fracturing her lower back. She was 52. Paralysed from the top of her chest down, she was to spend almost a full year in hospital, determinedly working towards gaining as much movement in her limbs as possible and learning to navigate her way through a world that had previously been invisible to her.

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpox Florence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’ Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctor Carl Jung, the doctor who wanted to...

‘Gripping … so powerfully emotional that at times I had to put it down to wipe my eyes’ Mail on Sunday ‘How do you say thank you to someone for giving you their heart? It is the greatest gift a person can ever give.’ Marc is a promising young footballers of 15, growing up in Scotland...

All seems tranquil as newly qualified Health Visitor Sarah motors into a small Kentish hilltop village in her new green mini. She’s barely out of the car when she’s called to assist the midwife with a bride who’s gone into labour in the middle of her own wedding reception. And so her...

Dr. Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 to July 15, 1970) was a Canadian psychiatrist and analyst who, in 1964, wrote the seminal book on transactional analysis, Games People Play, a discussion on the dynamics of human interactions. The following recording is from a 1966 television interview.

Miracles and Mayhem is the story of one man’s work in the face of Big Pharma and Big Academia to nurture a medical revolution that will help people recover from illness and injury for generations to come. What’s evident in the perils and triumphs thrown at him throughout his career is that the path has not been easy. Still, he wouldn’t have it any other way. Pushed to become a doctor, he instead became a fire paramedic turned biologics renegade who defied his family's expectations, broke every rule in the medical playbook, and pioneered a global stem cell and biologics movement.

When British Arab and ‘Southerner’ Dr Ahmed Handy suddenly found himself working as a junior doctor in the Midlands, a part of the country with which he was wholly unfamiliar (and which was equally unfamiliar with people like him), he was faced with something of a culture shock. But that was only the beginning of his bizarre junior doctor experience.

A medical doctor and a cancer survivor shares in this memoir, a deeply personal voyage through the turbulent waters of life, navigating through disease and beyond, with medical insight, resilience, and faith. It is regarding the unpredictable and challenging nature of the disease during the prime of her life. It is the indomitable human spirit that allows one to survive such deathly blows of life.

After years of hearing that she was an inspiration to family and friends, Heather decided to strive to inspire a larger audience by writing. Citing a lifetime of personal experiences, she gives her listeners an inside look at her world of insane medical drama, PTSD, pain, grief, and loss. She shares that the only way she has learned to accept each situation she has had to endure was to allow herself time to grieve. She knows that the only way to find lasting peace in the midst of life's many storms may require going through the grief cycle over and over again.

L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial “Coroner to the Stars,” who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood, and hundreds of other notable personalities. Choi, an award-winning historian and professor, deftly blends Los Angeles history, death investigation and forensic science, and Asian American history in a feat of exquisite storytelling.

Justin, a young athlete diagnosed with over two hundred cancerous tumors in his body, was breaking track and field records at the age of thirteen before he was diagnosed. Hear about the fortitude of a child determined to live...forever. This true story is beautifully written through the eyes of his mother. She writes about the miraculous, the intimate moments that almost broke not just her, but her son and family. Hope was not lost in this remarkable story of redemption. The power of God is reflected clearly through these words of pain, fear, death, and salvation.

In this final volume of her memoir trilogy, Dr. Erica Elliott begins her medical training as an enthusiastic, wide-eyed student but soon becomes a disillusioned doctor, sick from toxic chemicals at the clinic where she works. This health catastrophe, followed by a near-fatal accident and the harrowing, experimental brain surgery that saved her life, forces Erica off the path of mainstream medicine and onto a path that leads to her profound healing. More than a half-century after a Navajo grandmother offered a prophecy about her life, Erica fulfills it in ways she never could have imagined.

Why Did She Jump? provides an intimate, uncompromising look into one mother's search for peace, understanding, and clarity amid the chaos surrounding her daughter's tragic death. It is a masterful recounting of the events leading up to her suicide and lifts the veil of shame and secrecy as it forges a path toward understanding mental illness.

Between Wounded and Well: Lessons in Healing shares a nurse practitioner journey of resilience and hope through the lens of wound healing stages. Debra Palmer, PhD, nurse, researcher, educator and survivor shares an extraordinary story of a childhood marked by trauma and chaos, in which she chooses to not let her past define her future. Through decades of personal struggle and professional insight, she discovered that healing begins with courage.

When Tony Moretti began caring for his Parkinson’s-stricken father, Vince, he thought, How hard could this be? But as the years mounted and Vince’s symptoms progressed, Tony found himself floundering on a monumental journey . . . and there were no answers at the back of the proverbial book. With the support of his wife, their four adult kids, and his three out-of-town siblings (Team Vince!), Tony followed his instincts while navigating Vince’s ever-shifting needs, HMO foibles, and his own father-son baggage.

La vera storia del leggendario italoargentino che ha salvato milioni di persone. Un eroe, un rivoluzionario, un genio della medicina. René Gerónimo Favaloro, considerato il padre del bypass aorto-coronarico, è tutte queste cose insieme. Argentino, nemico giurato del regime peronista, è costretto a vivere per dodici anni in un minuscolo paesino nel mezzo della pampa, dove nonostante tutto riesce a creare un centro medico moderno ed efficiente.