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From the remarkable man whose life inspired the heartstopping film, ‘I Swear’, a book that offers extraordinary insight into what it’s like to live with a severe form of Tourette’s Syndrome: a fascinating, complex condition that’s more common than most of us think (1 in 100 schoolchildren have the condition), and yet is chronically misunderstood.

Beautifully wrought and staggeringly urgent , Fragile Minds documents Bella Jackson's time as a trainee mental health nurse, and the devastation and hope she encountered in winding corridors and behind locked doors. With compassion and care Bella introduces us to a vivid cast of staff and patients, prompting us to look closer, ask questions and demand more for them.

The Cancer Club is a collection of very real stories from past and present members of the club–daughters, sons, parents, siblings, friends and the doctors and nurses who stand by your side.

One fine April day, Mary Ann Kenny’s husband died suddenly while jogging near their family home. In the months that followed, Mary Ann – who had no history of mental illness – began suffering from depression, and then from a terrifying succession of physical and psychological symptoms, including the delusion that her young children had been harmed by her medications.

تمضي نوال سعداوي في سرد مذكراتها كطبيبة كانت بحاجة في لحظة من اللحظات إلى من يداويها، يداوي آمالها التي انبعثت مع لحظات انبثاق أنوثتها، وآلامها التي تفجرت مع تفجر هذه الأنوثة، المجتمع بتداعيات معتقداته، والأهل بسجن عاداتهم وأفكارهم، والنفس بهواجسها وتطلعاتها ومعصيانها وتمردها، وبإذعانها أخيراً لشيء ما، تعلن مذكراتها.

In Notes From A BlackBerry, author Julie Barth embarks on a profoundly moving journey, chronicling the lives of her beloved daughter Taytem and her husband Colin.

The 1946 biography of Harvey Cushing by John Fulton on audiobook for the first time ever!

Spared: A Memoir of Risk and Resolve follows the account of a young girl who witnesses her father’s descent into the psychological and physical deterioration of Huntington’s Disease (HD), a hereditary, neurological, degenerative illness which has minimal treatments and no cure. The author grows up in a household of uncertainty, secrecy, and shame, and by overhearing the adults speak, she gains limited understanding and a respectful fear of what Dad calls “The Shakes.”

We’ve all had our good days where we’ve wished for time to freeze and wanted some memories to stay with us forever. Life changes and this is inevitable. We cannot always get what we wish for and acceptance of this fact is wherein lies the beauty of it all. It takes knowing sadness to know what happiness is, listening to noise to appreciate silence, and dealing with one’s absence to value presence. Some people just want to live a happy life, and Angela was certainly one of them. Living her life to its fullest, she was convinced that it couldn’t get any better or any worse.

A compilation of the best ER stories that have happened to me. They are all completely true. People always want to hear "nurse stories" and I think that these stories are what they want to hear. You can bet on a lot of raised eyebrows while listening to this! These can invoke powerful emotions and give a glimpse into healthcare and show how some people really are.

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.

If you know anyone with dementia, have been diagnosed in the early stages of dementia, or if you are caring for a person with dementia, then you should definitely listen to this story of love, loyalty, passion, and patience. A tale of never-ending belief in the future.

كتاب الطب النبوي من مؤلفات ابن القيم والذي يعد من أشهر المؤلفات في الطب الإسلامي، ويتضمن فصول نافعة في الطب الذي تطبب به، ووصفه لغيره حيث يبين الكاتب فيه الحكمة التي تعجز عقول أكبر الأطباء عن الوصول إليها. وهذا الكتاب هو الجزء الرابع من كتاب زاد المعاد في هدي خير العباد.

Step into the fascinating world of Al-Zahrawi, also known as Albucasis, the pioneer whose groundbreaking contributions to surgery have shaped modern medical practices. Father of Modern Surgery: Al-Zahrawi is an engaging and informative journey through the life and achievements of a brilliant physician whose innovations continue to influence the field of medicine today.

One minute Jim Zervanos was carrying his one-year-old boy to a baseball game; the next, he was in the ER, where for days he lay in limbo, being strangled from the inside. Teams of the best doctors were stumped by his worsening condition, before telling him there was nothing they could do. That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story, is about experiencing joy even in desperate times. It's about the relationships that anchor us, even as they must be entirely redefined. At forty-one, married, with a young son, Jim said goodbye to his family.

This book is a rare and compelling listen from a first time author that worked in the pharmaceutical industry with a Fortune 500 company, with some the world’s top physicians, in the halls of major medical center hospitals, throughout the United States. His insights as a representative, then a sales team leader, and finally as a Regional Sales Vice-President present some of the past and present challenges of our healthcare delivery system.

Jasmine was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis at the age of 13 and spent four years confined to a wheelchair. She has over eight different autoimmune diagnoses, has undergone 36 surgeries to date, and still needs more. She's had her knees replaced twice in her lifetime and has tried countless treatments, from Western to Eastern medicine. Today, she is completely in remission from everything and thriving! Discover how she did it and how music saved her life.

Born into a daring, musical family in 1886, Annette Kellerman was a force of nature and made for the stage – her first love – and encouraged to defy social norms from a young age. But after she was diagnosed with rickets as a child she took up swimming for therapy, and soon she became an Australian champion, beating boys, breaking records and astonishing huge crowds by diving from great heights. By 1905, Kellerman was 18 and on her way to England in an attempt to swim the Channel and challenge endurance records in the Thames.

Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and was treated, she experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms connected to a range of mental disorders, including dementia and her professional specialty, schizophrenia. Lipska's family and associates were alarmed by the changes in her behavior, which she failed to acknowledge herself.

Ever wondered what it was really like for a nurse on the frontline during the Covid pandemic? How did they juggle work and home life during this unprecedented time? This audiobook shares one nurse’s experience of being redeployed to set up and manage a ward during the first wave of the pandemic, all while running a household and caring for her parents after her mother’s two recent brain haemorrhages.