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This is a true story about a doctor who, as a young man, developed a fierce independence. His goal became not only to become the best doctor he could be but to be his own boss. It's also the story of a health care system that became hostile to that independence, so much so that to continue as an independent doctor became riskier over time. This is my story. I'm that doctor who, at times, had to risk it all just to be my own boss.

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.

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.

“Proceed as the way opens” is how William Least Heat-Moon put it in his book, River Horse. The line becomes a sort of mantra for Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth McGowan, a melanoma survivor. Having been given a five-year clean bill of health, McGowan decides to bicycle all 4,000 or so miles from America’s West to East Coast. She wants to help other melanoma victims and sets out to use her many miles to raise funds for cancer research. She also wants to better understand her late father, who died of melanoma at the age of 44, when Elizabeth was just 15.

Thyroid cancer is an unusual cancer, but fortunately often a very treatable one. Nobody really knows what causes it. As it affects mostly women, one theory is that the sudden weight gain and weight loss during pregnancy precipitates it, but there is also the theory that radiation to the face and neck during childhood ( for example, dental x-rays) may be a factor, and also some say the fallout from Chernobyl could be a cause. Incidences are rising. GP's only get to see one or two cases per year, so they are not always very knowledgeable on treatment procedures.

Living with a chronic, progressive neurological disease (MS), a geologist explores some of the confounding questions of our time. The difference between wellness and illness, the different, but complementary roles modern science and alternative traditions like naturopathy play in healing, the potholed approach to accessibility and affordability of health care in our great country, the role of resilience and opportunity in answering the time honored question each of us ask: "Just who am I?"

September 25, 2012. Ted Neill picked up a knife to cut his wrists open and kill himself. Post hospitalization and treatment for major depressive disorder, he wrote Two Years of Wonder, a memoir based on his journey toward recovery. In it, he examines the experience that left him with such despair: living and working for two years at an orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya.

My personal journey of wellness and illness has been treacherous at times, but very enlightening and full of experience carrying wisdom and truth. I was forced to make time for my illness and, thankfully, I found my way back to wellness. I have worn many hats as a healthcare provider, which presented me with many points of view about wellness and illness. Unfortunately, it wasn’t until I explored this journey as an unhealthy patient that I truly understood more about it. Thankfully, I have a medical background that gave me a bird’s eye view of the road back to wellness.

The diagnosis of a chronic illness can uproot your life and send you on a journey you would never have imagined. With uncertainties and questions now swirling around your head, you wonder if there will ever be calm again. When Chloe Cohen was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the age of 20, life took on a whole new meaning. In Stronger Together, Chloe shares her story of how she journeyed from her fear of needles to getting full sleeve tattoos, from giving up her musical dreams to playing as a DJ, and from struggling to function to truly thriving.

This book isn't about prescription drugs and the things the drug companies don't tell you, even though it does talk about that. It's about why you are addicted to something you know is hurting you and why you feel trapped in your business, marriage, or life. And it's about how to start living the life you truly want to live and get to the next level so that you can be happy. This is my story of going through 10 days of Adderall detox in Costa Rica and what I discover about what the last five years of being on Adderall have done to my body.

“Why do they keep locking me up?” Rusty’s Story is Carol Gino’s account of the extraordinary life of the woman she undertook to help - the woman who ended up teaching her an invaluable lesson about the will to live, the strength of hope...

Robert J. Sykes, Jr (Bob) was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia in December 2003 at the age of 47...He endured the disease for more than three years before succumbing on April 7, 2006. This audiobook paints a picture of a unique individual, a generous and giving man, who selflessly devoted himself to family life. It is a story of loss, but it is also a story of love and devotion in the face of devastating illness.

“I had the moment. The Moment. When life was as I expected, until it wasn’t.” That was the day in 2004 that Lauree Ostrofsky came face-to-face with the little white blob, an acoustic neuroma brain tumor. A series of scary moments and missteps follows and ultimately lead her to launching #hugtour, plotting routes to office buildings and coffee shops hugging people she cares about along the way. The process teaches her that running hugs in traffic are exhilarating and that unabashedly sharing love is more worthwhile than she could ever have imagined.

Catherine Laborde, qui a des années durant présenté la météo sur TF1, se dévoile avec ce livre vérité, tout en pudeur, émotion, humour aussi, qui parlera à tous. Dans ce livre vérité sur la maladie de Parkinson dont Catherine Laborde est victime, elle raconte tout en pudeur, émotion, humour aussi, ce mal qui touche plusieurs milliers de personnes, malades et aidants inclus. "Après avoir réfléchi à mon quotidien, j'établis ainsi la liste non exhaustive des symptômes de la maladie de Parkinson qui me touchent."

"Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar Through the Head" is a report by Dr John M Harlow on the case of Phineas P. Gage who survived an accident in 1848 in which an iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for the injury's reported effects on his personality - friends considered him “to be no longer Gage." The author states that the case serves to show the wonderful resources of the system in enduring the shock and overcoming the effects of so frightful a lesion....

When Dr. Ellen Einterz first arrives in the town of Kolofata in Cameroon, the situation is dire: Patients are exploited by healthcare workers, unsterilized needles are reused, and only the wealthy can afford care. In Life and Death in Kolofata: An American Doctor in Africa, Einterz tells her remarkable story of delivering healthcare for 24 years in one of the poorest countries in the world, revealing both touching stories of those she is able to help and the terrible suffering of people born in extreme poverty.

Som 12-årig fik Anne Lise Marstrand-Jørgensen diagnosen depression af en psykiater, der satte hende i medicinsk behandling. I en alder af 20 år mente samme psykiater, at hun skulle forberede sig på at tage medicin resten af livet. På det tidspunkt tog hun sagen i egen hånd: Trappede helt ud af medicinen og undersøgte i stedet mulighederne for alternativ behandling og terapi. Mange mennesker med depression og angst er konstant i tvivl om, hvorvidt de gør det rette. Nogle kan ikke bære, at andre sætter spørgsmålstegn ved deres dispositioner, andre opsøger selv de samtaler.

Discover how you can lead your own fight against diabetes instead of just managing it in this empowering book on diabetes.

After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure. Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived two bouts of colon cancer and a...

"Vi tror tyvärr inte att han kommer överleva "Det är en vacker höstkväll i slutet av september 2013. Charlies kropp ligger på en kal bår inne på intensivvårdsavdelningen på Länssjukhuset i Kalmar. Hans föräldrar har just fått samtalet från läkaren som ingen vill få, ett samtal där man berättar att deras son kommer att dö. Några timmar tidigare har Charlie fått en kraftig panikångest-attack och starka självmordstankar. I stundens förvirring tar han en överdos av värktabletter och lugnande medicin för att bli kvitt ångesten, för att känna ro, kanske också för att dö.