Títulos en Médicos

The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor’s heart up the motorway hard shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive intervention gone awry in US hospitals, to a traumatic trip to bring advanced cardiac surgery to the Palestinian West Bank. Nashef tells heart-stopping stories of transplants, coronary artery bypasses, aorta repair and cardiac arrest.

“I am opposed to heart disease and cancer the way one is opposed to sin.” With that as her battle cry, health activist and philanthropist Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. “I’m just a catalytic agent,” she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike.

La doctora Gloria Villalba vive la neurocirugía no solo con auténtica pasión, sino como una autentica adicción. En este impactante libro se desnuda sin censura y nos muestra una personalidad indomable, que contrasta con una sensibilidad y empatía extraordinarias. Porque, como ella mismo confiesa, no le ha sido fácil -ni le sigue siendo- trabajar en una profesión con zonas muy oscuras, donde la integridad y la justicia demasiado a menudo brillan por su ausencia.

"Avendo fuggito ogni altro lavoro per paura, mi ritrovo a fare il lavoro che fa più paura a tutti". Quante volte parliamo dei medici come di eroi, martiri, vittime... In verità, fuor di retorica, uomini e donne esposti al male. Appassionati e fragili, fallibili, mortali. Paolo Milone ha lavorato per quarant'anni in Psichiatria d'urgenza, e ci racconta esattamente questo. Nudo e pungente, senza farsi sconti.

Plongez au cœur du cerveau humain : une neurobiologiste raconte sa récupération après un AVC. Le Dr Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomiste reconnue, offre un regard sans précédent sur le cerveau, non seulement en tant que scientifique, mais aussi en tant que patiente. Ce récit détaille son...

The untold story of the Edinburgh doctor who became Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, and his adventures in the criminal underworld of Victorian Britain. Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and...

La letra de médico tiene fama de ser algo que no se entiende, pero este audiolibro es todo lo contrario. Carlos Presman escribió una memoria profesional amena, fascinante, que estaba faltando. Así lo demuestran más de veinte ediciones y veinte mil ejemplares vendidos. La edición completa de esta obra se divide en "Historias personales", "Cuentos clínicos" e "Historias a su salud". Con relatos breves y muy buena pluma, Presman nos pasea por los desafíos de la relación médico-paciente.

The best clinical knowledge in America is free to anyone who asks for it. What has been missing is something that can reason over it. That now exists, and I believe it is a real chance to change how medicine works.I spent forty years finding that out the slow way.I built brain monitors...

There are things you learn about people when you take care of them at their most vulnerable.Not the version they show the world.The version that emerges when fear, pain, and uncertainty strip everything else away.What Nurses See When No One Else Is Looking is a reflective, deeply human...

Frente a mí diario de la tormenta narra la vivencia personal, como médico oncólogo y a un tiempo enfermo aquejado de cáncer. Su experiencia profesional, calidad humana y la probada capacidad para convertir el pensamiento en literatura, nos sumergen en un relato intenso sobre la enfermedad y sobre la vida misma, en el que todos nos podemos reconocer de algún modo.

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.

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.

**Patrick Radden Keefe's new instant No.1 bestseller, London Falling, is on sale now** The shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis. The inspiration behind the Netflix series Painkiller, starring Uzo Aduba...

A wife's fight against leukemia. A war that closed the skies. A faith that held.In the spring of 1990, Shahid Malik and his wife, Kaukab, were living a full life in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. They were raising two young daughters in the close-knit expatriate community of Saudi Aramco. Then...

Sie war Krankenschwester. In Deutschland nannten sie sie nur die Putzpolin. Als Ana mit einundvierzig in den Bus nach Westen steigt, hat sie einen Vertrag in der Tasche, ein Wörterbuch, das sie nicht brauchen wird, und eine Zahl im Kopf: wie viel sie schicken muss, damit das Dach hält, der...

'This is a triumph of reporting, and an absolutely compelling exploration of neuroscience and genetics. At its heart, though, it's a poignant, heartfelt story about family and how love sustains even in the most difficult circumstances. Like Kolker's other work, it is full of deep humanity. It's...

People from all walks of life call 911 when things go bad. These are their stories, told by the people who respond and make things better. First responders often don't tell stories, preferring to keep what happens at work private. Rescue Captain Michael Morse changes that with these heartfelt descriptions of hundreds of emergency calls, with the usual coverings peeled back, exposing the bizarre, heartbreaking, and often hilarious reactions to 911 emergencies.

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. 

Para Carmen, 2012 es un punto de inflexión. Tiene setenta y cinco años. La salud le empieza a fallar, los temblores repentinos aumentan y en una cena con amigos ocurre lo peor… Para más inri, sus problemas se multiplican cuando se sienta en el banquillo acusada de proxenetismo. Poco antes...