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In When There Are Two Patients in One Body, an experienced Labor and Delivery nurse shares a collection of birth stories, some joyful and others harrowing, that reveal profound life lessons from one of the most intense human experiences. While babies arrive either by vaginal delivery or caesarean section, each birth unfolds uniquely, whether as a momentous and thrilling event or an unexpected and life altering ordeal. This book follows the author's career, presenting a chronological journey through a diverse array of births, each story interwoven with her personal reflections.

Diagnosed with advanced liver disease, coupled with a fracturing marriage, a father of three young girls knows there's no time to engage in anxiety or self-pity. Doug laughs between the tears as he pulls every ounce of courage possible to face the biggest tests of his life. In the chaos of fighting the sneaky, methodical liver disease that threatens to kill him, Doug wrestles with divorce, parenting three daughters, and trying to make the most out of life.

In this powerful fire chief’s memoir, Russell Schwahn invites listeners inside a life spent answering the call—through roaring flames, national disasters, and the quiet, unseen battles of leadership. The Weight of the Helmet captures the grit, compassion, and relentless responsibility that come with decades in the fire service, told with the honesty only a veteran can offer.

Miracles and Mayhem is the story of one man’s work in the face of Big Pharma and Big Academia to nurture a medical revolution that will help people recover from illness and injury for generations to come. What’s evident in the perils and triumphs thrown at him throughout his career is that the path has not been easy. Still, he wouldn’t have it any other way. Pushed to become a doctor, he instead became a fire paramedic turned biologics renegade who defied his family's expectations, broke every rule in the medical playbook, and pioneered a global stem cell and biologics movement.

Dr. Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 to July 15, 1970) was a Canadian psychiatrist and analyst who, in 1964, wrote the seminal book on transactional analysis, Games People Play, a discussion on the dynamics of human interactions. The following recording is from a 1966 television interview.

Da una routine che la costringe ad alzarsi alle cinque di mattina per affrontare la lunga sessione di trucco necessaria a celare il nevo di Ota, la macchia scura che le copre parte del viso. Uscire allo scoperto, mostrare il proprio viso al naturale affrontando la paura dello sguardo degli altri è una decisione difficile, ma lo è ancora di più perché riporta alla superficie della mente di Carlotta la memoria di un altro trauma, che ha segnato la sua adolescenza.

When British Arab and ‘Southerner’ Dr Ahmed Handy suddenly found himself working as a junior doctor in the Midlands, a part of the country with which he was wholly unfamiliar (and which was equally unfamiliar with people like him), he was faced with something of a culture shock. But that was only the beginning of his bizarre junior doctor experience.

A medical doctor and a cancer survivor shares in this memoir, a deeply personal voyage through the turbulent waters of life, navigating through disease and beyond, with medical insight, resilience, and faith. It is regarding the unpredictable and challenging nature of the disease during the prime of her life. It is the indomitable human spirit that allows one to survive such deathly blows of life.

The story goes something like this: successful journalist and author, Alicia (Lisa), in her late 50s, is single and mostly happy but has given up on finding love again after her first marriage ended abruptly. Her friends convince her to at least try Match.com, and she finds the love of her life. Then out of the blue, he is diagnosed with melanoma, which has travelled to his brain. Through immunotherapy, he gets cured. And through the process of his illness, she and his children---not especially close before---become a family.

Justin, a young athlete diagnosed with over two hundred cancerous tumors in his body, was breaking track and field records at the age of thirteen before he was diagnosed. Hear about the fortitude of a child determined to live...forever. This true story is beautifully written through the eyes of his mother. She writes about the miraculous, the intimate moments that almost broke not just her, but her son and family. Hope was not lost in this remarkable story of redemption. The power of God is reflected clearly through these words of pain, fear, death, and salvation.

'Vera Gedroits was a true medical heroine: outrageous, intrepid and devoted to saving lives. Miranda Seymour’s genius as a story teller brings this astonishing woman blazing back to life. I shall never forget her' LADY ANTONIA FRASER Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess...

After years of hearing that she was an inspiration to family and friends, Heather decided to strive to inspire a larger audience by writing. Citing a lifetime of personal experiences, she gives her listeners an inside look at her world of insane medical drama, PTSD, pain, grief, and loss. She shares that the only way she has learned to accept each situation she has had to endure was to allow herself time to grieve. She knows that the only way to find lasting peace in the midst of life's many storms may require going through the grief cycle over and over again.

L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial “Coroner to the Stars,” who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood, and hundreds of other notable personalities. Choi, an award-winning historian and professor, deftly blends Los Angeles history, death investigation and forensic science, and Asian American history in a feat of exquisite storytelling.

Wise, candid, brave and incredibly moving, this superb memoir by New Zealand doctor Lucy O'Hagan is full of warm wisdom and humanity. Over her long career Dr O'Hagan has developed deep insights into the profound but often complex relationship between patients and doctors. Learning about her own struggle with what it means to be a truly useful doctor is both fascinating and absorbing.

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do...

An Economist Best Book of 2024 “If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared...

Including an exclusive bonus conversation between the narrator and the author, Dr Natalie Cawley. 'I loved this witty, insightful journey into the world of psychotherapy' – Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with...

Author and illustrator Hey Gee tells the story of a real-life Mayo Clinic patient. As an aspiring high-school track athlete takes on race after race, she must learn to manage the challenges of sickle-cell anemia. She'll need to work together with her health-care team and her family, along with techniques for self-care, to find success on and off the track.

De openhartige biecht van een voormalige spoedarts. Met voorwoord ingelezen door de auteur zelf. De spoedafdeling: een plaats waar je zelf liever niet te veel komt, maar die wel tot de verbeelding spreekt. Elisabet Haesevoets werkte jaren als spoedarts en biedt je een onverbloemde blik achter de schermen van dit spannende en soms ook harde leven. Een reanimatie tussen de brandende assen, een letterlijk gebroken hart, een akelige treinramp, een verborgen zwangerschap,... vanaf de eerste pagina's neemt Elisabet je mee in de meest onwaarschijnlijke situaties en diepmenselijke emoties.

The founder of the Black Doctors Consortium shares her “inspiring story of overcoming mind-numbing obstacles” (Will Smith), highlighting the devastating racial injustices in our healthcare system in this empowering call to action. Dr. Ala Stanford knew she wanted to be a doctor by the time...