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In this revelatory memoir, doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth other doctors don’t always understand and often won’t share if they do - that chronic illness is complicated, and that treatment is not just a matter of test results and prescriptions but requires a more comprehensive approach. By sharing her own struggle with a disabling autoimmune crisis, which forced her to question her own conventional medical training and embrace the integrative principles of functional medicine, Li reveals the insider knowledge sufferers need to truly begin healing - mind, body, and spirit.

Flight for Life is the heart-stopping account of one of the most gripping rescue missions in African history, told by a doctor involved in saving the lives of Nigerian workers who became victims of a tragic American chemical company explosion. Dr. Stewart and his colleague moved mountains and cut red tape to fly patients to one of the premiere burn centers in the United States.

In Airing Out Your Vagina, Allie Trimble-Lozano—a 45-year-old hospital CEO, single mom, and trailblazer in the medical industry—bares it all with raw honesty and wicked humor. This no-holds-barred memoir chronicles Allie's journey from people-pleasing Southern belle to unapologetic boss babe, offering a refreshing take on modern womanhood.

At the 12th Evacuation Hospital Cu Chi, Vietnam, Sarah L. Blum is an operating room nurse during the fighting in the iron triangle in 1967. Mass casualties with severely wounded soldiers show up for Sarah, her fellow nurses, and the surgeons to treat in the midst of mortar attacks, monsoons, and exploding artillery. Her story is intertwined with Johnny, hit by American artillery, and Jim, a baseball pitcher with multiple wounds including to his pitching hand.

For both adults and kids, there is an epidemic going around. And no, I’m not talking about COVID. I’m talking about ADHD. In this book, you’ll learn how meditation can help children and adults focus and concentrate, calm their body and mind, and live happier and more peaceful lives. Hopefully, after learning the techniques in this book, we can turn that attention deficit into an attention surplus.

When molecular biologist Becky McClain raised urgent alarms about biosafety lapses at her biotech lab at Pfizer, she expected concern—not retaliation. Instead, her warnings about dangerous, genetically engineered viruses that were handled without following standard safety protocols were met with hostility, intimidation, and ultimately, devastating illness after a workplace exposure changed her life forever.

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.

Innerhalb weniger Tage macht Hannah Kaiser die schönste und die schlimmste menschliche Erfahrung: die Geburt ihrer Tochter - und ihren Tod. Wie überlebt man so etwas? "So schlimm wie dieser Schmerz gerade ist, so groß muss später auch die Kraft sein, die ich daraus schöpfen kann." Mit unglaublicher innerer Stärke und emotionaler Weisheit berichtet Hannah von den Wegen ihrer Trauer und der Dankbarkeit für die Liebe, die sie erfahren darf. Ein ermutigender Bericht über den Umgang mit dem Tod.

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 survivor of two life-threatening illnesses after being told three times he had six months to live. He’s navigated the AIDS epidemic’s heartbreak, personal loss, and the high-stakes world of Facebook, Walmart.com, Palm (HP), and MCI (Verizon), guiding startups and leaders through change.

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.

For Dr. Ann-Marie Popwell, this book, I Am the Face of Mental Health, was forged in the fires of a deeply personal tragedy--the untimely loss of her only son, Ainsley Stephen Popwell, who lost his life to a tragic Atlanta Police shooting. Stephen suffered from schizophrenia and PTSD after serving his country as an army veteran. The author, Dr. Ann-Marie Popwell, wrote this book with the hope that it will shed some light on the plight of those young men who suffer from mental health trauma.

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.

In this compelling story of selfless courage and compassion, Cheryl Lafferty Eckl chronicles how she and her beloved husband, Stephen, moved beyond merely coping with his imminent death from colon cancer to approaching it as one of life's great mysteries—a process of profound learning, mutual devotion, and deep personal growth. Writing with stunning candor and immediacy, Cheryl takes the listener on a journey that plumbs the depths of loss and soars to the heights of the soul's release-even providing a powerful glimpse into the Other Side of life.

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.

This is the true story of a very special man whose life was suddenly and forever changed by a rare disease. Dealing with a severe backache for three days, he was taken to an emergency room. For five grueling months, his dignity, as well as his very self was stripped away. Trapped in a system that all too often is not healthcare, but Healthcareless.

Into the Mist is a powerful love story that contains important lessons for general listeners as well as caregivers. The compelling narrative carries us through the unexpected ordeal of coping with the worsening signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. No listener will take anything for granted ever again. Lena's decline and Paul's devotion will leave us saddened but inspired as the couple manages to live from one moment of joy to the next. After listening to the book, we understand that death is not the end; it is the beginning of something mysterious and wonderful.

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.

Just when Linda Varisco thought the storm had passed, her life plunges even deeper into turmoil, forcing her to confront the unimaginable. With her dazzling million-dollar smile now hiding more secrets than it reveals, Linda bravely steps into single parenthood, rebuilding her chiropractic practice and trying to piece together a new normal from the shattered fragments left behind by her husband’s betrayal and addiction.

Dr. Walter Grady, DO, FAOAO, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and Fellow in the American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics with forty-four years of combined medical and orthopedic surgical experience. Dr. Grady made history by becoming one of the first two African American DO orthopedic surgeons in the United States. He is subspecialty fellowship trained in hand, microvascular, and upper extremity surgery.