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Jarvis was a typical, middle-aged man in the early summer of 2019. He didn't know what a transient ischemic attack (TIA) was until he had six of them in one evening. The next day, Jarvis walked into an emergency room on his own power to get checked out. The TIAs had been scary, but he figured they were just a warning that he needed to take better care of himself.

A memoir of a healthy young man who survives a fatal car crash only to be plagued by a mysterious illness that robs him of the ability to walk, talk, and eat solid food. When Force Meets Fate is a captivating, transcendent survival story that forces all of us to reckon with our mortality and the fragility of life.

At the relatively young age of 49, I was told I had a rather dangerous situation with my heart that needed fixing sooner than later. I had both an aortic aneurysm and a damaged aortic valve. It was a ticking time bomb in my chest and only a matter of time. My only viable option was to undergo the most invasive and riskiest of procedures – open-heart surgery.

Einmal "Alles wird gut" zum Mitnehmen, bitte! Eine wahre Geschichte, die beweist, dass eine lebensgefährliche Krankheit kein Grund ist den Kopf in den Sand zu stecken. Wir reagiert man, wenn man mit 24 Jahren im Fitnessstudio einen Herzstillstand erleidet und aus der mühsam aufgebauten Carpe Diem Welt gerissen wird? Richtig. Sich nach dem Aufstehen erst mal fragen wie viele Menschen einen bewusstlos und oben ohne gesehen haben, und dann - aufstehen, dem Schicksal den Mittelfinger zeigen und verdammt nochmal weitergehen!

This is the story of a physician who lived life with blinders on, navigating the increasing demands of being “doctor mom”. It reveals that grit and diligent hard work do not protect you against the heartache of burnout, and the best decisions are not made with logic or reason, but right-brain instinct. Right Brain Rescue is a literary “creativity prescription” that will inspire us to think differently about how we use our energy, explore our values, and care for our bodies and minds so we can become the most sparkly version of ourselves.

In 1990, Robert K. Brown was an ordinary college student studying abroad in England when a series of unexpected and extraordinary events would change the trajectory of his life forever. Choosing to ignore ominous early symptoms, he was still troubled enough to write in his journal "just for the record...I am frightened because things are happening to me that I can’t explain away." What follows is a race against time to return home to Seattle for months of chemotherapy, countless complications, and a search for as much normalcy as possible when forced to face mortality at 20.

When I graduated from medical school, a third of heart attack victims died at home or in the hospital. Heart rhythm disorders were killing or crippling hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. Severe heart failure was a death sentence. Preventive cardiology was practically unknown: the significance of high cholesterol was being debated, 50 percent of adults were smoking cigarettes, and high blood pressure was usually undetected and often poorly controlled. All of this changed for the better - much better - during the 47 years I practiced medicine and cardiology.

On Wings of Hope: Leading Lily Home explores those questions through a poignant recollection of Bischoff's experience in assisting a young client through her journey with breast cancer and untimely death. Based on a true story and filled with wisdom and life lessons, this account describes Lily's inspiring passage from despair to enlightenment as a result of Bischoff's unconventional therapy and compelling and inspirational view of the afterlife.

James Barry was one of the most outstanding doctors of the 19th century – a brilliant surgeon, a tireless campaigner for medical reform, and a compassionate Inspector-General of the Army. But throughout a long and distinguished career an air of secrecy, even of scandal, always clung to Barry. The shrill voice, the diminutive build, the almost ostentatious humanity – all struck a discordant note in the stiff, conventional world of the officers’ mess. Only after the doctor’s death in 1865 did the incredible truth come to light: Dr. James Barry was a woman.

This heart-wrenching and triumphant love story is a tale of advocacy and caregiving. Donna's husband, David, stumbled into their bedroom, his hand covering a blood-filled eye from a brain hemorrhage. Donna called 911. David slipped into a coma. At that moment, Donna was thrust onto the path of caregiver for her best friend and the love of her life. In her debut memoir, Donna shares how a neurosurgeon said that David would make a "great organ donor".

Finding a cancerous lump in her breast seven weeks after a clean mammogram was terrifying. But fitness expert and race announcer Fitz Koehler refused to play the victim or allow cancer to steal her extraordinary career or time with family. In My Noisy Cancer Comeback, Fitz reveals the juicy and gory details of her 16-month battle, all while zigzagging across the United States.

Amity Reed became a midwife to serve women, but the reality of working in overstretched and underfunded NHS maternity services soon shattered her illusions. She’s not alone - for every 30 midwives that train, 29 will leave the profession. Overdue is both the devastating personal story behind the statistics, and a call for change in the NHS.

Dr. George Cotzias lived a large life. He stood over six feet tall; he drank Metaxa like milk; he smoked cigarettes as if eating candy. He bullied patients, sometimes looming over their wasted bodies. He had “a stare as strong as death”. His passion for women, his wife, and others was infamous. His voice boomed through the halls of the hospital where he was chief of physiology research.

Pandemic: NYC is the first-hand account of the height of the outbreak of coronavirus during the spring of 2020 in New York City. This memoir-style book is written by one of the many traveling nurses who risked their lives answering the call for additional frontline medical staff to combat the largest pandemic in a century. Her first-hand account takes you inside the hospital, to what she witnessed each day, and tells the stories of who lived and died through this crisis.

Princesas de cristal es un libro escrito con la valentía de quien abre su alma al mundo desde el corazón; un diario valiente y honesto escrito a tres manos por Ana, una joven que ha sufrido un trastorno de alimentación, Ignacio, su padre, y Azucena, su terapeuta. Su verdadero afán es concienciar a la sociedad de que la Anorexia es una enfermedad así como visibilizar, impedir, frenar o ayudar a curar a todas esas personas que padecen Anorexia Nerviosa y a sus familias.

This book is at once an autobiography, a cookbook, and a set of musings on the potential of life on Earth and Dr. Jay’s prescriptions on how to make the most of it. Dr. Jay crosses medical boundaries with ease, from radiology to dermatology, from plastic surgery to podiatry, from allopathic to naturopathic. Dr. Jay is one of the few doctors who has taken the opposite approach of most.

Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then she was called home to fill in for her mother as receptionist at her father's rural Tennessee doctor's office - assured it would only be for a few days.

First published in 2010 in Malayalam as Oru Police Surgeonte Ormakkurippukal, this is the best-selling memoir of Kerala's most famous forensic surgeon, Dr. B. Umadathan. Popularly known as the "Sherlock Holmes of Kerala", Dr. Umadathan revisits some of his strangest and most interesting cases, like the Chacko murder masterminded by Sukumara Kurup; the sensational Polakkulam case; and the baffling Panoor Soman case.

I mitten av mars 2020 blir småbarnspappan Thomas Wilander plötsligt sjuk. Han får hög feber, ont i kroppen och svårt för att andas, men tror att det bara är en vanlig förkylning. Inte kan han väl ha drabbats av något allvarligt, han som är i så god form och lever så hälsosamt? Efter en vecka skjutsar hans fru honom till sjukhuset, där man konstaterar att han har covid-19. Han läggs genast in på intensivvårdsavdelningen och sövs ned. Därefter minns han inget förrän han vaknar upp den 5 maj, efter 36 dygn i respirator.

I juli 2014 fick Sven Erik Nordin beskedet att han hade en aggressiv form av cancer i underlivet. Samtidigt fick han veta att hans enda chans att överleva var att genomgå en omfattande operation som bland annat innebär att hela penis skulle avlägsnas. Efter en kort betänketid bestämde sig Sven Erik för att inte följa läkarens råd och tackade nej till behandling. I stället började han febrilt leta efter alternativa metoder som kunde bota honom. I dag är han friskförklarad!