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Tony Redmond is one of the few truly good people you will ever meet. His is a story of tireless hard work and astonishing bravery across wars, refugee crises, air crashes, earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes and disease outbreaks for more than 30 years. Featuring stories of hope and redemption, as well as untold suffering and mismanagement, this unique account could only have been written one who has for decades performed incredible feats of altruism.

Decorated Navy SEAL Lieutenant Jason Redman served his country courageously and with distinction in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. But his journey was not without its supreme challenges. He was critically wounded in 2007 when he was struck by machine-gun fire at point blank range. During his intense recovery period, Redman posted a sign on his door, warning all who entered not to "feel sorry for [his] wounds."

"Möchtest du wissen, was wahre Magie ist?" Als der 12-jährige James Doty den kuriosen Laden für Zauberbedarf betritt, ahnt er nicht, welche Wendung sein Leben nehmen wird. Was die liebenswürdige Ruth den schüchternen Jungen aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen lehrt, ermöglicht ihm, seine kühnsten Träume zu verwirklichen: Durch vier einfache Übungen befreit er sich von dem Gefühl, Opfer seiner Lebensumstände zu sein. Er wird Chirurg, dringt in die Tiefen der Gehirnforschung vor und hat als Unternehmer immensen Erfolg.

Having worked in the emergency services for more than 15 years, Dan Farnworth has seen it all. There was the time he was called to take away a dead body - only for the 'corpse' to jolt back into life and demand to know what he was doing in her house. Earlier in his career, he unwittingly disturbed a crime scene as he shared the sad news of the victim's death with her son.

"Are you one of us?" a patient once asked Marsha Linehan, the world-renowned psychologist who developed dialectical behavior therapy. "Because if you were, it would give all of us so much hope." Over the years, DBT had saved the lives of countless people fighting depression and suicidal thoughts, but Linehan had never revealed that her pioneering work was inspired by her own desperate struggles as a young woman. Only when she received this question did she finally decide to tell her story.

The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally engaged in Parkinson's advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, the world's leading non-profit funder of PD science.

From its opening minutes on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life.

What colour is cancer? Why do some people appear to have made miraculous recoveries? How can you tell when someone is in the final hours of their life? How can we ensure our most vulnerable are treated with the dignity they deserve? In this unprecedented memoir, a palliative medicine pioneer explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death. Kathryn Mannix immortalises the thousands of men and women she has seen off.

At age fourteen, Laura Delano's parents took her to her first psychiatrist. At school, she was the model student, but at home Laura felt a rage that she unleashed on family, friends and herself. She was promptly diagnosed with bipolar disorder and started on a course of mood stabilizers and antidepressants. It was to mark the beginning of a painful and relentless journey. Weaving together Laura's medical records and doctors' notes with illuminating research on the drugs she was prescribed, Unshrunk is the powerful memoir of one woman's battle against the commercial psychiatric industry.

Von einem Arzt des Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrums gebeten, über ihren beeindruckenden Weg der Heilung ein Erfahrungsbuch zu schreiben, um den so wichtigen Einfluss des Glaubens an Heilung zu vermitteln, ermutigt diese Autobiographie, das unmöglich Geglaubte für sich selbst zu ermöglichen. Jegliches Gift kann in heilende Medizin verwandelt werden. Una Gonschorr, Sängerin, Schauspielerin, Komponistin und Autorin, erhielt mit Beginn der weltweiten Pandemie 2020 die Diagnose Brustkrebs. Musik und Aufnahmen: Peter Gasper

Me lo dijo sin preámbulos, pero no me tomó por sorpresa.A principios de 2022, mi padre, Carlos Alberto Montaner, me encomendó la misión más difícil y dolorosa de mi vida: "Te pido que me ayudes a morir". Más de seis años después de ser diagnosticado en Estados Unidos con párkinson sus capacidades físicas habían mermado considerablemente y la enfermedad comenzaba a hacer mella en sus facultades cognitivas.

In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.

This is a true story about Brandon C. Gandy, who overcame fifteen birth defects, twenty-eight surgeries, a medically induced coma, and cancer, and became the eighth person in the world to have a testicular and kidney transplant. During all of his near-death medical challenges, Brandon persisted; he would remain an athlete and he tackled many different sports. His brave, strong journey sheds light on real-life struggles of what a miracle child has to go through growing up and how he turned his preconceived weaknesses into his ultimate strengths with his endless faith.

For the many millions of headache sufferers and fans of Mary Roach, Siddartha Mukerjee, and Ed Yong, a deeply reported, sometimes harrowing, and frequently humorous journey into the author’s own excruciating headaches, and the science behind these surprisingly mysterious disorders that may, finally, offer relief.

My editor had ok'd the story, "The Unveiling of a Quack", and now I faced the man whom the power of the press would squash like a bug. "Five times," he said quietly in response to my question, "the Medical Society of the County of New York sent a committee here to investigate my methods. I let them see patients, X-rays, records, everything." "And what were the results of those investigations?"

ஒரு எளிய கதை, காட்டின் மீதான நேசிப்பை அகத்துள் ஏற்படுத்துமா? என்ற கேள்வியை அறிவுச் சமூகம் எழுப்புமாயின், ஜெயமோகனின் யானை டாக்டர் கதையை நாம் துணிந்து முன்வைக்கலாம். கால்நடை டாக்டர் கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி, யானைகளின் உடல்நிலையைப் பேணுவதற்காக உருவாக்கிய விதிமுறைகள் தான் இந்திய வனவியல் துறையின் கையேடாக இன்று உள்ளது.

The Aging Revolution is the story of Butler and his disciples: women and men who saw older distressed adults in hospitals and homes, and worse: being ignored by most of the medical establishment. These revolutionaries could not ignore the suffering, and they set out—individually and collectively—to create entirely new ways of caring for aging adults to ease their suffering and improve their quality and length of life.

El best seller de Elisabeth G. Iborra sobre experiencias reales de enfermeras, ahora más real que nunca, en audiolibro. Esta recopilación de situaciones reales vividas por profesionales de enfermería, incluye también anécdotas de situaciones de emergencia reales. Sin duda, sus historias son reflejo de la realidad de los hospitales y centros sanitarios que especialmente más venimos valorando en estos últimos tiempos que nos toca vivir.

We Don't Use Words Like Crazy is a 'professional confessional' from Elliot Sweeney, a mental health nurse who works on the frontline of mental health services. His touching and often humorous memoir lifts the lid on the realities of the profession, in an attempt to highlight the need for compassion for some of the most vulnerable people in the world, and the very committed people that work with them on a professional basis.

Un ouvrage percutant sur une femme qui se bat, une véritable source d'inspiration pour tous et toutes. Avec force détails, rires et joies, Paola Corbo nous raconte son quotidien avec la sclérose en plaques avec un détachement hors du commun. "La descente aux enfers" pourrait bien définir le parcours de Paola n'eut été l'extraordinaire prise de pouvoir de ses pensées sur son état physique. Ceci est l'histoire, écrite à trois plumes, de la vie d'un vif-argent peu à peu restreint à rouler sa bosse dans un fauteuil électrique.