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A Different Life: An authentic and inspiring story about trauma, mental illness and resilience

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Govender (Author)5 stars! "Honest, uplifting, biographical, insightful, relatable ..." - Dr Wathsala Yapa - General Practitioner - MBBS FRACGP5 stars! "A must read book. Jonathan has written an honest, raw and vulnerable story ..." - Elspeth Haswell-Smith, CEO - Well Life Services, Psychologist5 stars! "A fast paced, brave and honest telling of one person's journey through mental health ..." - Pauline Collins, Professor of Law UniSQ, LLB Adel, BVisArts...

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Report copyright infringementby Janessa Gunderson (Author)They tried to silence me. I refused to disappear.Janessa Gunderson was a powerlifter, a mother, and a fighter-until her body started shutting down without warning. Seizures. Dizziness. Numbness so severe she could no longer walk. Doctor after doctor dismissed her, telling her it was anxiety, stress, or just a migraine. But the truth was far worse.What happens when you're screaming for help, but no one listens?Told with raw honesty and ...

If You'd Only Listen: A Medical Memoir of Gaslighting, Grit & Grace

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Report copyright infringementby Rosie Sorenson (Author)If You'd Only Listen asks the question: "How Far Are You Prepared to Go to Save the Life of Someone You Love?"371,000 patients die every year in the U.S. from preventable medical errors; 424,000 are left with ongoing disabilities (Johns Hopkins & Harvard). The author and her husband knew nothing of this when they had to move out of state for his liver transplant, due to an impossibly long waiting list in their home state of Californi...

Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes on a Deadly American Epidemic

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Report copyright infringementby Rob Gore (Author)The inspiring story of a Black doctor who was deeply affected by the violence that plagued his Brooklyn childhood and later dedicated himself to addressing trauma and violence as public health issues Rob Gore first encountered violence when he was beaten and robbed as a 10-year old; it was treated as an inevitable fact of life, but after another brush with violence as a teen, he began to reject that prevalent attitude. As he matured and became ...

Sleepless Nights: The First 42 Years as an Active EMT

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Report copyright infringementby James W. Rose (Author)All across this great country in towns scattered throughout the hills, mountains, valleys, and forests nestled in their homes, are volunteer first responders known as "EMTS", Emergency Medical Technicians. They are everyday people, many of which hold full time jobs, going to work daily, and responding to calls in their community when they are off from work. Much of this work is done at night, when the first responder actually has free time...

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick M. Barken (Author)Primary care medicine, as we know and remember it, is in crisis. While policymakers, government administrators, and the health insurance industry pay lip service to the personal relationship between physician and patient, dissatisfaction and disaffection run rampant among primary care doctors, and medical students steer clear in order to pursue more lucrative specialties. Patients feel helpless, well aware that they are losing a valu...

From Calcutta to Connecticut: An Intern's Tale of Two Cultures

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Report copyright infringementby Amitabha Ghosh Roy (Author)From Calcutta to Connecticut is a memoir by Dr. A. Ghosh Roy, a distinguished Boston-area surgeon who grew up in India during the tumultuous post-colonial days. With an eye for detail and good humor, Dr. Roy vividly recounts the culture of his homeland-the colorful festivals, the food, the traditions, kite-fighting, and yes, the snake charmers-and how he followed his dream of becoming a surgeon despite his family being of modest means...

Color War: Dinshah P. Ghadiali's Battle with the Medical Establishment over his Revolutionary Light-Healing Science

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Report copyright infringementby Steven M. Rachlin (Author), Harvey Rachlin (Author)The compelling story of a Parsee Indian who fought the medical establishment over his Spectro-Chrome Therapy science. A must read for anyone interested in health or a natural cure for diseaseIn 1920 a Parsee Indian named Dinshah P. Ghadiali introduced to the world a new healing science that he spent decades meticulously researching. It was based on color therapy, and hundreds of medical doctors, surgeons, denti...

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Report copyright infringementby Celia T. Collins (Author), Sheeba Lee (Illustrator)Diagnosed with Epilepsy at a young age she was left very confused and worried will she be ok. As scary as the new word is she worried about the future. Trying to navigate and understand what's happening. From doctors appointments, attempting to have a normal childhood, and with all these new restrictions. But with the love of her family, the support of her husband, and a new outlook on life she is able to lead ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth R. Weinberg (Author)Kenneth Weinberg, born into a family of physicians and humanitarian relatives passionate about politics, literature, humor, and art, developed a unique blend of interests. His education and career took shape during the tumultuous '60s and '70s, first as he pursued undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, earning a degree in Television and Film Production and then, working in that field for four years. However, h...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth R. Weinberg (Author)"Reading these stories brought me right back to Bellevue's ER, the feelings and the sounds, the sights and smells. Weinberg has a gift for weaving a tapestry of patient tales while pulling on our heartstrings." --Julie Holland, MD, and author, Weekends at Bellevue, Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER (Random House)Kenneth Weinberg, born into a family of physicians and humanitarian relatives passionate about politics, lite...

Beating Cancer Without Breaking a Sweat: From

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Report copyright infringementby Kat Turner (Author)Find hope and inspiration in a breast cancer survivor's miraculous recovery and discover how an alternative treatment approach literally saved her life... in just 8 short months! Diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer, Kat Turner was given eighteen months to live - but God had another plan. After starting an alternative treatment, she went from planning her funeral to planning her future. Beginning with the discovery of this recurrence in 2012...

8: Rediscovering Life After a Brain Tumor

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Gilbert (Author), Nathalie Jacob (Author)Imagine only seeing a single number. Everywhere you look, all you can see is eight. You can't spell your name. You can only draw a circle. You can't add two plus three.This was Nathalie Jacob's life after an invasive brain surgery. Nathalie hadn't realized anything was wrong. She held a high-level job as a marketing executive and was discussing beginning a family with her husband when the doctors gave her the bad n...

Inside Laboratory Medicine: A Memoir of Healthcare Behind the Scenes

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Report copyright infringementby Nyla Jo Hubbard (Author) In a quarter million clinical laboratories in the United States alone, techs work every day with little visibility or recognition. During the Covid pandemic, they risked exposure and worked extensive overtime running tests to produce accurate, timely results for patients. At all times, they must learn ever-changing technology while managing family life around a demanding job. This book chronicles the unseen work of laboratory technician...

The Secular Prayers of Medicine: Stories from the Frontlines

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Report copyright infringementby Pa-C Kateland Kelly (Author)Have you ever been dismissed by a doctor? The American Healthcare system is chock-full of missed diagnoses and, when doctors dismiss patients and assign misdiagnoses, monsters are made. This unprecedented collection shines a light on the link between monsters, medical gaslighting, and chronic pain to remind us we are all only a diagnosis away from our own horror story.________________________________________________________ Kateland ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shelley Malicote Stutchman (Author)If you or someone you know has ever received a breast cancer diagnosis, you understand how overwhelming and scary it can be. In "PEEK-A-BOOB," the author offers a helping hand to those navigating the difficult journey from diagnosis to survivorship. Drawing from personal experience and thorough research, this book provides a roadmap through the maze of treatment protocols and medical jargon while also serving as a source of co...

Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale

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Report copyright infringementby Gillian Gill (Author)Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain-if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain's health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that reads like the best Victorian fiction, acclaimed author Gillian Gill tells the story of this richly complex woman and her extraordinary family.Born t...

In the Shadows of Death: Writing Life's Final Chapter

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Parker (Author)When it's your job to calm the chaos around you, the chaos within you takes its toll.Factual. Comprehensive. Compassionate. Sometimes at odds, these characteristics have driven medicolegal death investigator Paul Parker throughout his career. From sharing gut-wrenching death notifications to investigating high-profile cases, Paul has written the last chapter of hundreds of stories-even when it nearly broke him.In the Shadows of Death is a po...

The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Dixon Chibanda (Author)A simple, human solution for loneliness and depression When Dr. Dixon Chibanda lost a patient to suicide, he began a soul-searching journey that eventually led to a mental healthcare revolution. As one of only six psychiatrists in all of Zimbabwe, a country traumatized by decades of conflict, Chibanda quickly realized that millions there were suffering from mental illness with no hope of receiving care. He saw that the only way to narrow...

Shot to the Heart: A Doctor's Stories of Life-Saving Cardiac Surgeries

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Report copyright infringementby Karl Hemingway Krieger (Author)What's it like to hold a human heart in your hands, knowing that every move you make could save-or end-a life?In Shot to the Heart: A Doctor's Stories of Life-Saving Cardiac Surgeries, Dr. Karl Hemingway Krieger, M.D. shares a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the extraordinary world of cardiac surgery. Drawing from decades of experience as a leading heart surgeon, Dr. Krieger recounts some of the most memorable cases of his ca...

Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Kriss (Author)An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that this condition is untreatable, told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and within this already marginalized group, folks with BPD are deemed especially untreatable and hopeless. When, as a graduate student, Alex Kriss first began working as a therap...

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Shiny Happy Person: Finding the Sun Between Clouds of Depression

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Report copyright infringementby Terri Cox (Author)Young, talented, intelligent, and with a thriving social life, on the surface Terri Cox had it all.But deep down in her mind a storm was brewing, and a series of life-changing events were about to unfold in quick succession that would send her spiralling into a full mental breakdown.Over the next few weeks and months, Terri was tormented by panic attacks, suicidal thoughts, bouts of insomnia, crippling headaches, severe weight loss and horrifi...

Six Months With Mommy: Chronicles from the Battlefronts of Cancer

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Report copyright infringementby Andre Hayes (Author)"This book is a must read for every child and parent-to understand the role that a terminal person's historyplays in how they choose to fight for their lives."Zeda Foltz -Then 96 year old retired teacher / neighbor / Circa 2005"I found the book both healing and compelling. The honesty with which Andre conveys his feelings during this ordeal, gave words to the feelings I felt when I lost my husband Don (Andre's College Coach at the UW) a few ...

To Hell and Back by the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ

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Report copyright infringementby Debbie Butler (Author) Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 16, 2010

American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Lunden (Author)A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author's quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James--ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life in America.When Jennifer Lunden became chronically ill after moving from Canada to Maine, her case was a medical mystery. Just 21...

Living in Shitville: What an Invisible Brain Injury Feels like

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Report copyright infringementby Ren? Ready (Author)How do you explain an invisible brain injury to someonewhen you look like you're doing fine?In May 2018, a compressed air accident at the dentistsent me home with a brain injury. My 31-year career as an occupational therapist was over.Welcome to life in Shitville.Living with brain injury and reading about it in textbooks were not the same thing. I hope to provide family members, friends, coworkers, professionals, caregivers, anyone, with ins...

Ceremonies, Etc.: New York State Inebriate Asylum, Binghamton, New York (1859)

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Report copyright infringementby New York State Inebriate Asylum (Author)Ceremonies, Etc.: New York State Inebriate Asylum, Binghamton, New York (1859) is a historical book written by the New York State Inebriate Asylum. The book provides a comprehensive description of the ceremonies and events that took place at the New York State Inebriate Asylum in Binghamton, New York, during the year 1859. The New York State Inebriate Asylum was a pioneering institution established in 1858 to treat alcoho...

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Report copyright infringementby Doug Moe (Author)It started in February 1933 when a Wisconsin farmer brought a dead cow and a bucket of cow's blood to the lab of a young University of Wisconsin biochemist named Karl Paul Link. The farmer's cows were dying mysteriously. Their blood would not clot. Over the next two decades, Link and his team solved the mystery, and in doing so, developed a powerful rodenticide and life-saving human anticoagulant called warfarin, which was famously administered...

Fighting for More Golden Years: Battling Disease and Embracing Hope After Age 65

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Muller (Author)This is my personal story of battling leukemia as I entered my so-called "golden years." Turning 65 marked the beginning of a series of profound changes, brought on by both family struggles and personal health challenges.Eventually, I was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. I endured grueling chemotherapy, fought through debilitating side effects, and then faced yet another blow - new heart complications and the looming possibility of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Sims (Author)This book brings to life the firsthand account of Matthew Sims who earned three Purple Hearts while serving as Combat Medic "Doc Sims." He lived through the Iraq and Afghanistan battlefields answering cries that few have ever heard, the call that rings out when a Soldier, Marine, Sailor, or Airman is hit-"MEDIC!" It also tells the story of a unique group of Americans whose job it is to save others' lives while risking their own. They often ...

Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Hartnell (Author)A spectacularly illustrated history of an enigmatic surgical diagram The Wound Man--a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases--was reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe. In this panoramic book, Jack Hartnell charts the emergence and endurance of this striking image, used as a visual guide to the treatment of many ailments. Taking readers on a remarkable...