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  • Zen and the Art of Multiple Sclerosis

    by Jeff Pinney ...
    JEFF PINNEY LOOKS BACK AT HIS STRUGGLES WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WHILE HOMESTEADING IN RURAL ONTARIO AS AN ARTIST AND WOOD CARVER.Jeff Pinney, a native of Hamilton, Ontario, had already gone through a series of dead-end jobs and luckless relationships by the age of thirty. He thought things couldnt get much worseuntil he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.Knowing he would suffer progressive ... Read more

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  • Confessions of a Doctor

    Professor Stanley Feldman decided to write his memoirs when, in 2008, he was pronounced dead. Fortunately, however, this was not by one of his fellow doctors but instead by an Australian medical journal - prompting much shock the next time he visited his friends down under! He has been a doctor with the NHS for over 60 years now, and has presided over the transition of medicine into the modern ... Read more

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  • Triggered

    A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    ***AS FEATURED ON NPR'S TALK OF THE NATION***Imagine the worst thing in the world. Picture it. Construct it, carefully and deliberately in your mind. Be careful not to omit anything. Imagine it happening to you, to the people you love. Imagine the worst thing in the world.Now try not to think about it.This is what it is like for Fletcher Wortmann. In his brilliant memoir, the author takes us on an ... Read more

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  • Bite Me

    How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me

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    Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong? In recent years, she had produced a feature film, a popular reality show for a major network, and had acted in an off-Broadway play. But now, Ally was pushed to a psychotic break after struggling ... Read more

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  • Am I Sane Yet?

    An Insider's Look at Mental Illness

    by John Scully ...
    International award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. He has been diagnosed with severe depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. During this time, he has held down leading jobs with world broadcasters.Am I Sane Yet? is essential reading for patients already suffering from depression ... Read more

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  • Beautiful Unbroken

    One Nurse's Life

    An unflinching memoir by a working nurseAs a child, Mary Jane Nealon dreams of growing up to become a saint or, failing that, a nurse. She idolizes Clara Barton, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Molly Pitcher, whose biographies she reads and rereads. But by the time she follows her calling to nursing school, her beloved younger brother is diagnosed with cancer, which challenges her to bring hope and healing ... Read more

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  • Clinic of Hope

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  • On the Cancer Frontier

    One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution

    In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: "We are losing the war against cancer." Cancer is one of humankind's oldest and most persistent enemies; it has been called the existential disease.But we are now entering a new, and more positive, phase in this long campaign. ... Read more

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  • The Uncertain Art

    Thoughts on a Life in Medicine

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  • Lucille Teasdale

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  • Breath of Life

    The Life of a Volunteer Firefighter

    Breath of Lifetells the story of a volunteer ?re?ghters life as an EMT and a ?re?ghter. Author Daniel McVey chronicles the harrowing stories of saving lives and facing death on a daily basis; he also shares stories of the dedication and professionalism of his comrades. He describes the small village on Long Island called Floral Park, where he belonged to the Rescue Company of the Floral Park Fire ... Read more

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