Resultados para "Patiënt" en Biografías y memorias

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.

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.

Just how do you navigate life with a mental illness? What effect does it have on day-to-day activities and future plans? I’m the Patient Not the Shrink takes you on a journey through an ordinary life lived against extraordinary odds. You won’t find easy answers in this book, but you’ll be given a unique insight into the raw and devastating pain of a mental breakdown. Author Cal Kennedy opens a window to the daily struggle of living with polar disorders and dyspraxia.

... c'est la question que Maëlle, 30 ans, pose quand elle apprend qu'elle est atteinte d'un cancer du sein métastatique, réputé incurable (qui représente 10 % des cancers du sein). Nous sommes alors en janvier 2016. Dans ce premier épisode, elle retrace son diagnostic, son parcours de soin, son rapport à la féminité avant/après l'annonce de son cancer, ses interrogations sur la norme physique et sociale (il aurait fallu être en couple, vouloir et avoir des enfants), et plus largement son expérience de la marginalité.

A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and some are quite literally transformed by the request.

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.