When Blood Breaks Down
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When Blood Breaks Down
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Author : Mikkael A. Sekeres
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-08-17
When Blood Breaks Down written by Mikkael A. Sekeres and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-17 with Medical categories.
A leading cancer specialist tells the powerful stories of 3 adult leukemia patients—shining new light on the hidden history of the disease and the drugs developed to treat it. “A look at leukemia patients’ fear, survival and grace while fighting the disease . . . a quiet chronicle of life with and beyond leukemia, and sometimes life’s end.” —The Washington Post When you are told that you have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can’t function. You are asked to make decisions about treatment almost immediately, when you are not in your right mind. And yet you pull yourself together and start asking questions. Beside you is your doctor, whose job it is to solve the awful puzzle of bone marrow gone wrong. The two of you are in it together. In When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael Sekeres, a leading cancer specialist, takes readers on the journey that patient and doctor travel together. Sekeres, who writes regularly for the “Well” section of The New York Times, tells the compelling stories of three people who receive diagnoses of adult leukemia within hours of each other: Joan, a 48-year-old surgical nurse, a caregiver who becomes a patient; David, a 68-year-old former factory worker who bows to his family’s wishes and pursues the most aggressive treatment; and Sarah, a 36-year-old pregnant woman who must decide whether to undergo chemotherapy and put her fetus at risk. We join the intimate conversations between Sekeres and his patients, and we watch as he teaches trainees. Along the way, Sekeres also explores leukemia in its different forms and the development of drugs to treat it—describing, among many other fascinating details, the invention of the bone marrow transplant (first performed experimentally on beagles) and a treatment that targets the genetics of leukemia. The lessons to be learned from leukemia, Sekeres shows, are not merely medical; they teach us about courage and grace and defying the odds.
A Manual For The Practice Of Surgery
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Author : Thomas Bryant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
A Manual For The Practice Of Surgery written by Thomas Bryant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with categories.
The Boston Medical And Surgical Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
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Boston Medical And Surgical Journal
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
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The New England Journal Of Medicine
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
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British Medical Journal
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
British Medical Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Electronic journals categories.
A Text Book Of Physiology Blood The Tissues Of Movement The Vascular Mechanism
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Author : Sir Michael Foster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
A Text Book Of Physiology Blood The Tissues Of Movement The Vascular Mechanism written by Sir Michael Foster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Physiology categories.
The Emperor Of All Maladies
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Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-08-09
The Emperor Of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-09 with Health & Fitness categories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Handle With Care
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Author : Jodi Picoult
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-02-22
Handle With Care written by Jodi Picoult and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with Fiction categories.
"Every expectant parent insists the same thing: they simply want a healthy baby. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe wanted the same but instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, pity from other parents, and haunting what-ifs. Yet, in other ways, their daughter Willow is a perfect child. Smart as a whip, beautiful, brave, and kind, Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and Sean to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte had known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more: what constitutes a valuable life?"--from amazon.com
When Breath Becomes Air
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Author : Paul Kalanithi
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-02-04
When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
** SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson