Ailments Diseases category: 10428 books
Never Give Up
Life with IBD
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Have you ever wondered what life is like with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). It is one of the last taboo's and most patients suffer in silence. Never Give Up is the author's frank diary of life with IBD plus several rounds of surgery and convalescence. It also looks at the...
The Patient's Playbook
How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error—mistakes, complications, and misdiagnoses. And many more of us are not receiving the best care possible, even though it’s readily available and we’re entitled to it. The key is knowing how to access it.
The Patient’s...
The Great Plague
A People's History
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord’s fascinating reconstruction of life during plague...
Flipped
A Drug-Induced Journey to the Event Horizon of Insanity
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
What appears to have been a miracle antibiotic drug to relieve the painful symptoms of Diverticulitis proves to be problematic as an adequate treatment. He goes on to experience many, many debilitating side effects from the drug. The antidote is worse than the original condition. The result is mental...
by Natalie Fedorak
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Description of meningitis and subsequent hospitalization of it.
Epidemic
Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Wilson examines the global response to a deadly outbreak and exposes the current holes in a global health system that is unprepared to handle the next big outbreak.
The heartbreaking story of the devastation wrought in three desperately poor countries — and the heart stopping truth about how close the world came to a global pandemic.
One Life at a Time
An American Doctor's Memoir of AIDS in Botswana
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
When Dr. Daniel Baxter arrived in Botswana in 2002, he was confident of the purity of his mission to help people with AIDS, armed with what he thought were immutable truths about life—and himself—that had been forged on his AIDS ward in New York City ten years earlier. But Baxter’s good intentions...
Ice Cream in the Cupboard
A True Story of Early Onset Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
EARLY ONSET ALZHEIMER’S: A LOVE STORY
It started with strange behavior—a hostile outburst here, a peculiar lapse of memory there. Then it became violent. The beautiful, vivacious Carmen Moffett was behaving in ways her husband Pat could not understand. Their marriage had been a long love...
by Ellie Wyatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Fascinating, very creative. Congratulations to this great lady of courage and determination!
Elizabeth Lancaster, executive director Hillsborough County Unit American Cancer Society
I Had Two When I Came In is one womans confrontation with cancer of the breast. It reveals a very personal...
by Betsy Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The Parents’ Guide to Hip Dysplasia is the only consumer guide to one of the most common birth defects in our nation! Now instead of having to comb through medical texts or scour the internet for information, concerned parents of children with hip dysplasia can have all the information they need...
Recovering from Multiple Sclerosis
Real life stories of hope and inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
'This is a must read for anyone with MS. Recovery is achievable. It is all about the lifestyle choices we make every day!' - Dr Terry Wahls, MD, author of Minding My Mitochondria
'These stories of hope, inspiration and sustained lifestyle change speak loudly. for doctors and patients, as well...
What Your Doctor Doesn’T Know About Fibromyalgia
Why Doctors Can’T or Won’T Treat Chronic Pain
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
FMS, a common term for fibromyalgia, attacks men, women, and even children of all ages, varying in intensity from patient to patient. Because doctors do not like to treat conditions they dont understand, patients are often ignored, denied pain relief, shuttled off to other experts, or filled with...
Managing Ms
Straight Talk from a Thirty-One-Year Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Debbie Petrina walked into her doctors office in 1980 with strange symptoms. She was only twenty-five years old and terrified of what to expect; it was not until four years later that she was finally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Since then, she has faced a battle in living with the disease;...
by Robert G. Smith, Ph.D., Todd Penberthy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The general explanation for the cause of arthritis is that over time, our joints simply wear out - that is, the cartilage that lubricates the ends of the bones simply gets worn thinner and thinner until one bone wars directly on another, causing pain and lowering our quality of life. It stands to...