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A Brief Detour Through Breast Cancer

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This short Australian story is a positive and non-threatening read for anyone facing a diagnosis of early breast cancer, their friends and family members, or the just plain curious. The author talks openly and honestly about her own experience, from the shock of diagnosis to each stage of treatment and beyond, with the inevitable challenges along the way. It covers important topics like the cost ... Read more

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This short Australian story is a positive and non-threatening read for anyone facing a diagnosis of early breast cancer, their friends and family members, or the just plain curious. The author talks openly and honestly about her own experience, from the shock of diagnosis to each stage of treatment and beyond, with the inevitable challenges along the way. It covers important topics like the cost
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This Is Going to Hurt

Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

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Now an AMC+ series starring Ben WhishawThe acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally "blisteringly funny" (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) physician memoir, chronicling the secret diaries of his years as a young doctor.Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to ... Read more

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Now an AMC+ series starring Ben WhishawThe acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally "blisteringly funny" (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) physician memoir, chronicling the secret diaries of his years as a young doctor.Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to
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Vital Signs

Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories of a junior doctor's first year

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An insight into what it's like to be a first-year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama, and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.Diagnosis and death; uncertainty and urgent laxatives; sleep deprivation and synthetic drawstring trousers: this debut work by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers chronicles her first year as a tired junior doctor at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital.How can Izzy be a ... Read more

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An insight into what it's like to be a first-year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama, and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.Diagnosis and death; uncertainty and urgent laxatives; sleep deprivation and synthetic drawstring trousers: this debut work by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers chronicles her first year as a tired junior doctor at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital.How can Izzy be a
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The Patient Doctor

How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare

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At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer.As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally whacked him in the guts, after all. But what he didn't expect was how being a patient, and a young ... Read more

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At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer.As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally whacked him in the guts, after all. But what he didn't expect was how being a patient, and a young
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F*** You Cancer

How to face the big C, live your life and still be yourself

by Deborah James ...

**As seen on BBC Breakfast**You are stronger than you know, more positive than you ever thought and you can still LIVE with cancer.Drink more green juices, eat turmeric, walk for three hours a day... Arghh, I wanted to scream, run away and tell every well-meaning person to go and do one!Whilst this book doesn’t advocate throwing all advice down the kitchen sink, it will empower you to do things ... Read more

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**As seen on BBC Breakfast**You are stronger than you know, more positive than you ever thought and you can still LIVE with cancer.Drink more green juices, eat turmeric, walk for three hours a day... Arghh, I wanted to scream, run away and tell every well-meaning person to go and do one!Whilst this book doesn’t advocate throwing all advice down the kitchen sink, it will empower you to do things
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Jake Bailey: What cancer taught me

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‘None of us get out of life alive, so be gallant, be great, be gracious, and be grateful for the opportunities you have.’ Jake Bailey’s inspirational end-of-year speech as head boy at Christchurch Boys’ High School was delivered from a wheelchair just one week after he was diagnosed with the most aggressive of cancers. As he lay in hospital fighting to stay alive, his speech grabbed headlines ... Read more

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‘None of us get out of life alive, so be gallant, be great, be gracious, and be grateful for the opportunities you have.’ Jake Bailey’s inspirational end-of-year speech as head boy at Christchurch Boys’ High School was delivered from a wheelchair just one week after he was diagnosed with the most aggressive of cancers. As he lay in hospital fighting to stay alive, his speech grabbed headlines
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Sick Notes

True Stories From The GP's Surgery

by Dr Tony Copperfield ...

'We wanted to thank you for all you did for mum over the years,' said Mrs Cobham.Excitedly, I peered into the plastic bag hoping perhaps for a bottle of something fizzy and vintage. Inside was one small loaf of sliced bread (white).'Erm... thank you,' I stammered. 'Well, that's lovely.'She nodded and smiled. 'It was the least we could do, doctor,' she said.Welcome to the bizarre world of Tony ... Read more

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'We wanted to thank you for all you did for mum over the years,' said Mrs Cobham.Excitedly, I peered into the plastic bag hoping perhaps for a bottle of something fizzy and vintage. Inside was one small loaf of sliced bread (white).'Erm... thank you,' I stammered. 'Well, that's lovely.'She nodded and smiled. 'It was the least we could do, doctor,' she said.Welcome to the bizarre world of Tony
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Not Right In The Head

How one family facing Alzheimer's discovered laughter may just be the best medicine

by Michelle Wyatt ...

Michelle Wyatt's mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer's like her own mother-Michelle's grandmother-they should put her in a home and throw away the key. When she did ultimately succumb to the disease, the choice to put her in a nursing home became the only option. During the next six years, Michelle, a well-known television producer, visited her mum often while her ... Read more

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Michelle Wyatt's mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer's like her own mother-Michelle's grandmother-they should put her in a home and throw away the key. When she did ultimately succumb to the disease, the choice to put her in a nursing home became the only option. During the next six years, Michelle, a well-known television producer, visited her mum often while her
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A Random Interruption: Surviving Breast Cancer with Laughter, Vodka, Smoothies and an Attitude

Surviving Breast Cancer with Laughter, Vodka, Smoothies and an Attitude

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Suzanne Zaccone, one of Americas most influential entrepreneurs, strips naked with a feisty and clear-eyed story of how she loses her breast and fights to get it back. Zaccone writes with an iron grip on the details, and reveals the secrets of cancer patients that are taboo and lost in translation. A Random Interruption is equipped with a dictionary of the language of breast cancer and a list of ... Read more

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Suzanne Zaccone, one of Americas most influential entrepreneurs, strips naked with a feisty and clear-eyed story of how she loses her breast and fights to get it back. Zaccone writes with an iron grip on the details, and reveals the secrets of cancer patients that are taboo and lost in translation. A Random Interruption is equipped with a dictionary of the language of breast cancer and a list of
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Chemotherapy, Clinics and Cupcakes . . . How I Survived Colon Cancer

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A cancer survivor's guide to dealing with the treatments, emotions and new normal that comes after a shocking diagnosis.Bowel cancer, despite being the UK’s second biggest cancer killer, still receives a shockingly low level of awareness. This book aims to redress this by telling the story of a mother of two who embarked on a crash course dealing with advanced bowel cancer at the age of 45. Having ... Read more

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A cancer survivor's guide to dealing with the treatments, emotions and new normal that comes after a shocking diagnosis.Bowel cancer, despite being the UK’s second biggest cancer killer, still receives a shockingly low level of awareness. This book aims to redress this by telling the story of a mother of two who embarked on a crash course dealing with advanced bowel cancer at the age of 45. Having
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Pieces of Me

Genetically Flawed - Surviving the Breast Cancer I May Never Have

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A vibrant performer, film director and mum, life for Veronica Neave was always a little crazy and unpredictable. When she tested positive for the BRCA2 'breast cancer gene' the turmoil in her life reached a new high.The genetic test, combined with her family's history, increased the probability of Veronica one day battling breast cancer to more than 85%. Veronica had watched her mother's ongoing ... Read more

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A vibrant performer, film director and mum, life for Veronica Neave was always a little crazy and unpredictable. When she tested positive for the BRCA2 'breast cancer gene' the turmoil in her life reached a new high.The genetic test, combined with her family's history, increased the probability of Veronica one day battling breast cancer to more than 85%. Veronica had watched her mother's ongoing
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How Would You Like Your Eggs?

A Journal About Life with Unexplained Infertility

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How far would you go to have a baby? Does it occupy your every thought, your every basic human need? Have you found yourself asking Why me? and choking on the announcement of yet another persons pregnancy? In a world full of abundant pregnant bellies everywhere we look, its easy to start questioning obsessively when falling pregnant is not as easy as wed once believed. Its time to take charge. ... Read more

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