Résultats pour "Patiënt" dans Professionnels et universitaires

Bloomsbury presents Patient written and read by Ben Watt ________________________ THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MEMOIR OF BEN WATT'S BATTLE WITH A RARE ILLNESS ________________________ 'Intensely moving' - Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph 'Quiet elegance and ringing epiphanic lyricism... a nearly flawless...

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be...

A political journalist and activist, Cousins was also a professor of medical humanities at UCLA, where he studied the biochemistry of human emotions and their relationship to healing. When Cousins was hospitalized with a debilitating collagen illness, he decided to take his health into his own hands. Cousins and his doctor combated the disease together by creating a regimen of laughter and vitamin C specifically calibrated to his needs. Against all odds, the treatment worked, proving to Cousins that a positive attitude was key to his improvement. 

Patient is a quirky, humorous, and occasionally poignant romp through the American health care system. After a seemingly mild case of COVID-19, the author finds himself hospitalized with acute renal failure. The connection to COVID-19 is tenuous at best, yet he is examined from head to toe with the ruthless efficiency that only a hospital with the latest technology can accomplish. Scans and tests of every possible type are conducted, eliminating the most dire of diagnoses.

Maëlle a 30 ans quand elle apprend qu’elle est atteinte d’un cancer du sein métastatique, réputé incurable. En traitement continu depuis 3 ans, elle fait peu à peu l’expérience inattendue des injonctions à la féminité comme principale urgence face à cette maladie qui tue 12 000 femmes par an en France. En partant de son expérience, et en allant à la rencontre d’autres patient.e.s, d’oncologues, de chirurgien.e.s, de psychologues mais aussi d’associations, de travailleurs et travailleuses sociales, d’entrepreneur.e.

“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless...

This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story. By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and humbling, Undoctored is about what happens when a doctor hangs...

Der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autor und erfahrene Arzt und Psychotherapeut Dr. Pablo Hagemeyer nimmt uns mit in seine Praxis und erzählt sieben skurrile und faszinierende wahre Geschichten, die uns an die Grenzen des menschlichen Verstands führen. Es sind echte Fälle aus seinem Alltag als Psychiater, mit deren Hilfe Pablo Hagemeyer auch Fachwissen über typische Diagnosen und Therapiemethoden vermittelt. Ob Depression, Trauma, pathologische Eifersucht oder nagende Selbstzweifel: Krisen sind nicht nur ein Zustand der Überforderung, sondern auch ein Übergang.

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.

A legendary New York Times war correspondent delivers his unforgettable final dispatch: a deeply moving meditation on life inspired by his sudden battle with terminal brain cancer. For thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, he...

Barbara was 12 when she was admitted to the psychiatric hospital, Aston Hall, in 1971. From a troubled home, she'd hoped she would find sanctuary there. But during her stay, Barbara was systematically drugged and abused by its head physician, Dr Kenneth Milner. Somehow, eventually, she started...

A powerful and inspiring memoir about how one man's cancer diagnosis led to him become a doctor and advocate for change in the healthcare system. At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from...

Brought to you by Penguin. Charlotte Raven had never heard of Huntington's Disease when, in her mid-thirties, she discovered that her father was suffering from the illness. Life for her and her young family would never be the same again. Patient 1 is her brutally candid account of coming to...

'Darkly funny as well as deeply shocking, [Be Patient] is an antidote to This is Going to Hurt... This is what it's like to be on the other side of Britain's hospital wards' -The Times 'Tilly writes beautifully, with such compassion... the insight that she gives the reader is astonishing.'...

From an ER physician and survivor of private violence comes a surprising, unflinching debut literary memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the emergency department—where her patients are wrestling with what feels unspeakable, and so is she. Told with dark humor and hard-won honesty, Dr. Anne Aspler brings listeners into the chaotic world of emergency medicine—and the quieter, messier work of healing her own past.

He never saw the moment on the end of his bed thinking about the nature of the world resulting in him losing touch with reality. But it was the moment he broke through the pressures in the west: to be better, work harder, and ultimately chase your dreams. That he realized nothing meant anything. The only purpose in life was to laugh when something was funny, cry when something was sad, eat when you were hungry, and enjoy every fleeting moment. Being a disciplined, calculated, accomplished engineer, this new paradigm didn’t fit in with the persona he had spent a lifetime creating.

Recalling remarkable cases - and people - from a career launched in the first days of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Paul Seward leads us in his memoir through suspenseful diagnoses and explorations of anatomy. Within the conditions of great stress and rapid decision-making that are routine in the ER, Dr. Seward tells us that medical staff must be more than technicians of the body: They must be restorers of the human.

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakenings and the TV series House, Dr. Eric Manheimer's Twelve Patients is a memoir from the medical director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of 12 very different patients - from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners from Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons - to illustrate larger societal issues.

In 1949, Ron Losee, a young Yale Medical School graduate, headed west with his wife and small daughter to begin the practice of medicine. They settled in Ennis, Montana, in a log cabin that also became their office and lab. Patients made themselves at home in the living room. One small bag held all their medical equipment. It was a proud moment when a patient first called Losee "Doc." His fee on that occasion was three dollars.

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...