Medical Developments

The health care - medical professional's field is among the most important callings on earth but doctors and medical workers have very difficult and very stressful jobs. There has also arisen an unmistakable doctor-shortage in many areas of America. This has increased the workload of medical staff and professionals and some of them are experiencing a condition referred to by medical research groups, as "burn out".

This is the story of how A.I. Theoretically Rachel survives in San Francisco and Oakland, helped by other half-A.I. half-humans including Doreen Thing, Vivian Oblivion, and Dead Leslie. They are the Neutrino Girls, anarchistic hackers and squatters empowered by artificial intelligence. Vicious psychiatrist Doctor Cube created these A.I. hybrids in a San Francisco mental hospital. Some of the Neutrino Girls escape and are swallowed by the streets, prostitution, poverty, America's failed Afghanistan War, and the wildness of rogue A.I. Richard S. Ehrlich is a Bangkok-based American journalist,...

Inspired by Sarah DiGregorio’s harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, Early is a compelling and empathetic blend of memoir and rigorous reporting that tells the story of neonatology - and explores the questions raised by premature birth. The heart of many hospitals is the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It is a place where humanity, ethics, and science collide in dramatic and deeply personal ways as parents, doctors and nurses grapple with sometimes unanswerable questions: When does life begin? When and how should life end?

Rose is delightful, flamboyant, and a widow. Having just lost her husband, Rose's daughter steps in to find Rose increasingly disoriented and forgetful. Even as a nurse, Maureen does not recognize the early signs of her mother's dementia - a diagnosis that changes her mother's life and those close to her. The contrast between the reality of Rose's condition and the "Casablanca Style" in which she lived is stark yet beautiful. This book parallels Still Alice's medical description of the illness but picks up where Still Alice leaves off.

When Elizabeth Golden, a typical 13-year-old student who enjoyed hanging out with friends, playing sports, and laughing out loud, was diagnosed with Scoliosis and faced major surgery, she was understandably apprehensive about her future. There was one thing, however, that Elizabeth was quite sure of - that there would always be others facing similar challenges, and they could benefit by knowing she shared their pain, fear, uncertainty, joy and triumphs. Out of her journal was born When Life Throws You a Curve: One Girl's Triumph Over Scoliosis.

"Ein paar Jahre werden Sie schon noch leben!" - wie der Autor mit dieser Diagnose umging Im Alter von 26 Jahren wurde Helmut Retzl mit einer schockierenden Diagnose konfrontiert, die ihn aus seinen Lebensträumen riss: ein schwerer Fall von Multipler Sklerose - keine Chance auf Heilung und nur mehr wenig Lebenszeit. Zum ersten Mal traf Helmut Retzl auf das Phänomen "unheilbar". Heute ist der Autor 57 und fühlt sich wie neugeboren. Helmut Retzl ist kein Vertreter einer neuen Heilslehre und kein Wunderguru, doch er hat nie aufgegeben und sich nie aufgeben lassen.

Die ergreifenden Schilderungen des Friedensnobelpreisträgers von 2018. Denis Mukwege, weltbekannter kongolesischer Gynäkologe und Menschenrechtsaktivist, hat es sich zur Lebensaufgabe gemacht, Opfern sexueller Gewalt zu helfen. Er erhielt 2018 den Friedensnobelpreis für seinen Einsatz für die Gesundheit und Rechte von Frauen in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo. Im Hörbuch verwebt er seine eigene dramatische Lebensgeschichte mit den Schilderungen einzelner Frauenschicksale.

Im Pflegealltag die richtigen Worte finden. Kommunikation und Gesprächsführung sind für die Pflege zentral. Zugleich stellt die Arbeit mit kranken, stark belasteten und emotional instabilen Personen oft eine große Herausforderung dar. Dieses Hörbuch richtet sich an alle, die mit pflegebedürftigen Menschen, Patienten, Heimbewohnern und Angehörigen arbeiten.

As a teenager Molly case is admitted to hospital for an operation that will save her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating theatre again, this time as a trainee nurse. In How To Treat People, Molly brings together these extraordinary moments, when the professional and the personal become inseparable. She introduces us to patients with whom we share the pain, the fear but also the life-affirming moments of illness.

Despite many uphill challenges, Phil's life is a study in perfection. A talented heart transplant surgeon, he marries the love of his life, and his future looks bright--until a tragic event causes his world to crumble around him. Erratic behavior at work threatens to derail his career, leaving several of his patients' lives hanging in the balance.

Marc is a promising young footballer of 15, growing up in Scotland. A few hundred miles away in England, Martin is a fun-loving 16-year-old. Both are enjoying their summers when they are suddenly struck down by debilitating illnesses. Within days, the boys are close to death. Although their paths have never crossed, their fortunes are about to be bound in the most extraordinary, intimate way. One of them will die, and in doing so he will save the other's life.

In this harrowing and intimate memoir, Harriet Alida Lye explores how, at just 15 years old, she was diagnosed with a form of leukemia called Natural Killer, named "the rarest and worst malignancy". The average survival time of patients with this diagnosis is 58 days. There are no known survivors. There were no known survivors. Fifteen years after Harriet's diagnosis, she became pregnant, despite having been told that her chemotherapy treatment would likely make conception impossible. To be a mother is to make a death, as death is bound up in life.

Beaucoup de mariages souffrent parce qu'une personne a un faible désir sexuel qui amène l'autre partenaire à se sentir rejeté ou mal aimé et insatisfait de l'intimité physique. Nous ne pouvons plus être passifs et regarder nos relations s'évanouir! Il est temps d'explorer certaines des causes et des solutions au problème d'une libido faible, et le temps d'apprendre des voyages des autres femmes, afin de trouver la solution qui fonctionne le mieux pour chacun de nous, pour nous aider à avoir une vie sexuelle plus heureuse et plus saine.