Títulos en Médicos

Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks - that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine when, at age 36, he enrolled in the "Harvard of paramedic schools": UCLA's Daniel Freeman paramedic program, long considered one of the best and most intense paramedic training programs in the world.

In Good Blood, best-selling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible affliction known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very different men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York, who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea, and the unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood - and his unyielding devotion to donating it - would save millions of lives.

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others. “This book is a victory on both sides of the page.”—Gloria Steinem “Are you one of us?”...

While serving with the Peace Corps in Swaziland, Thomas Cowan encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price - two men whose ideas would fascinate and challenge him for decades to come. Both drawn to the art of healing and repelled by the way medicine was - and continues to be - practiced in the United States, Cowan returned from Swaziland, went to medical school, and established a practice.

*본 오디오북에는 특별히 책의 저자 윤지회 작가님께서 녹음에 참여해 시작 부분과 말미의 다시 시작 부분을 직접 낭독해 주셨습니다. 병원 나이 38년 2개월부터 나는 생존율 7%를 향해 승부를 걸어보기로 했다!위암 4기...

Dans ce livre inspirant, Anita Moorjani raconte comment, après avoir lutté contre le cancer durant presque quatre ans, son organisme, envahi par les cellules malignes, s'est mis à défaillir. Lorsque ses organes ont cessé de fonctionner, Anita a vécu une expérience de mort imminente extraordinaire, au cours de laquelle elle a compris sa valeur intrinsèque et la véritable cause de sa maladie. En reprenant conscience, elle a constaté que son état s'était amélioré tellement vite qu'elle a pu sortir de l'hôpital après quelques semaines et sans trace de cancer dans son corps !

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.

TRUST IS EASY WHEN LIFE IS GOING WELL. THE REAL TEST COMES WHEN EVERYTHING FALLS APART. Ashley Yardley spent her life caring for others as an EMT, hospice nurse, business owner, wife, mother, and advocate. But caring for people didn't protect her from betrayal. When family stole a business she helped build, when government investigators accused her of crimes she didn't commit, and when powerful institutions tried to silence her, Ashley faced a choice: become bitter or become stronger.

A raw, first-person memoir by a healthcare professional who falls into addiction and climbs back out, an unflinching account of shame, burnout, and spiritual recovery that exposes how caregiving can break those who give the most, and how redemption is rebuilt one honest day at a time.

With firsthand experience in what he darkly dubs “summer camp,” a euphemism for a modern-day asylum, JaKob Williams recounts harrowing episodes of institutional care, reflecting on the controversial methods still in use today. From grappling with electroconvulsive shock therapy to navigating the labyrinth of mental health care, he exposes a system resistant to progress, while offering hope to those who feel different, broken, or lost.

Double Emmy award-winning author Martin King takes you on an enthralling journey through the history of medicine on the battlefield, covering the battles of Ancient Rome, both World Wars, Vietnam and many more.

For newly diagnosed cancer patients, a uniquely comprehensive and empowering guide offering all the information needed to navigate critical early decisions with clarity, confidence, and a greater sense of control. "You have cancer." Few phrases hit harder—or leave you feeling more lost. Just...

Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Named a Best Book of Summer by The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Publishers Weekly, and Book Riot The Observer (London)’s Summer Reads Select In this collection of medical tales “reminiscent of Oliver Sacks...the best of medical...

Winner of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction | Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize An unforgettable and inspiring true story of how one family’s grief transformed into a lifesaving gift—written by a bestselling author and palliative care doctor. The first of our organs to form and the...

From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir—reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire—about her experience as the third person ever to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving ten...

El autor de este libro pasó de trabajar en el mundo editorial, dar clases de interpretación actoral y estar bien considerado, a ser bipolar, con vida de bipolar, con pensión de bipolar. Y ser mirado y tratado como bipolar; en algunos casos con desconfianza, en otros con paternalismo y casi siempre con recelo.

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.

Troublesome quandaries can burst through the ER doors at any moment. Inscrutable ERcurtains conceal patients' weird and shocking sexual misadventures. Have you ever wondered what goes on behind those curtains? Embark on a journey guided by the AssMaster, Steve Mimnaugh, M.D., as he is challenged by his patients' tribulations of the human undercarriage. Learn the AssMaster's origin story and enjoy a voyeuristic fly-on-the-wall perspective on insertions gone wrong and other travails of the nether regions.

Это откровенный рассказ о жизни человека с биполярным расстройством. Жизни, в которой есть невероятные эмоциональные вершины — и такие же невероятные спады. Жизни, в которой чувства остры до предела, а неудачи приводят к чёрным депрессиям. Кей Джеймисон испытала всё это на себе — депрессии, мании, попытку самоубийства.

What happens when your patients can’t speak…but their lives—and their deaths—still tell unforgettable stories? Over the course of a long career, one veterinarian has seen it all: the routine and the remarkable, the joyful and the heartbreaking, the moments that heal—and the ones that stay with you forever. From late-night emergencies in barns and clinics to quiet, life-altering conversations with animal owners, these true stories offer a rare glimpse behind the scenes of veterinary medicine.