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In the tradition of Scott Turow’s One L and Atul Gawande’s Better comes a real-time, real-life chronicle from an impassioned young doctor on the front lines of high-stakes cardiology. It takes drive, persistence, and plenty of stamina to practice cardiology at the highest level. The competition...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Patient H.M. tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Luke Dittrich’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This...

Experts now predict that more than one-third of American children born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the link between obesity and diabetes, this passionate, frightening–but ultimately hopeful–book points the way to a solution. To...

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A young man battles Hodgkin's disease and survives--with more than a little help from his Mom--in this wry and uplifting memoir about life, love, and beating the odds. When Dan Shapiro's decidely anti-drug mom put aside her convictions and grew marijuana in her backyard garden (behind a discrete...

From the star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills comes an emotional and eye opening behind-the-scenes look at her descent into uncovering the mystery of chronic Lyme disease. In early 2011, Yolanda was struck by mysterious symptoms including brain fog, severe exhaustion, migraines and...

The groundbreaking, award-winning investigation into Lyme disease—the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience—now with a brand new chapter. When Pamela Weintraub, a science journalist, learned that her oldest son tested positive for Lyme disease, she thought she had found...

A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author’s battle to save her son’s life — or at least his large intestine — from a very severe case of Crohn’s disease. With persistence, humour, much searching of the Internet and the help of two unusual doctors,...

An Amazon Best of the Month Book "For all the insight he offers into the hard science and thorny logistics of studying cancer, Dr. Scadden’s most moving passages consider the effect of the disease on the people who suffer from it and those who care for them." —The Wall Street...

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, edited and abridged in one volume by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus (244,000 words, 31 illustrations) Ernest Jones’s three-volume The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud was first published in the mid-1950s. This edited and abridged volume...

Twenty-five years ago my doctors had no cure for my cancer. So I went on a quest to find my own treatment. This is my story... In 1991, Glenn Sabin was a 28-year-old newlywed diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)–a disease doctors called “uniformly fatal.” Treatments could...

Living In The Labyrinth is the story of how one woman found the strength and the courage to cope with a devastating disease that has afflicted five million Americans. Far from being an exercise in self-pity or a standard autobiography, this is an unflinching and ultimately uplifting look at a debilitating...

那些病人教我的，以及我想告訴他們的事 在面對疾病時，所有人的無助都是一樣的，害怕也是一樣的。 身邊的人的愛，能夠讓病人堅定活下去的意志。 當你跨出治療的步伐，覺得痛苦難忍時，請想想你身邊愛你的人，也不要忘了，還有我在你前面。 醫療對我，不只是技術， 更是一個又一個傾心付出的愛的故事！ 初入醫學院時，我曾經對成為醫生這件事有著莫大的憧憬。 然而到了大四、大五，我開始被課業壓得喘不過氣，曾經一同挑燈夜戰的夥伴，如今也變成爭奪主治之位的敵人。 我對醫學的熱情，就這樣一點一點被消磨。 然而，我在行醫這條路上，遇見了數不清的病人，在我還沒沒無聞的時候，不知道為什麼，他們卻願意將性命相託。 有些病人一來就是八、九年，逐漸轉變了我對醫病關係的心態。 醫療之於我，不再只是冷冰冰的數字和用語，開始變成了一個又一個或讓我輾轉難眠，讓我會心一笑，讓我淚水氾濫的故事。 而我，希望將它們與你分享。 願你也能跟我一樣，從中得到安慰。   各界暖心推薦 在面對病人時，除了看見「疾病」，同時也看見「病人」！本書透過一隻會講故事的筆，不只讓我們認識各種疾病，同時也帶我們看見白色巨塔的溫度。醫療不是只有冰冷的醫學知識，除了透用既有的資訊技術治療各式各樣棘手的疾病，醫師們也透過與病患的交流、關懷病人本身。──「每日健康」總監...

Pour la première fois, une journaliste et un photographe se voient ouvrir les portes d'un hôpital pour suivre deux fillettes en attente d'une transplantation rénale. Elles se nomment Axelle et Camille, elles ont à peine onze ans. Pour ces fillettes, la morosité des couloirs d'hôpital a remplacé...