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When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents, Collins felt inadequate and unprepared.

Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for...

Im Rückgriff auf prägende Momente seiner Biografie denkt Dieter Wellershoff über das Altern als lebenslangen Prozess nach. Erfahrungen der Scham und der Angst nicht aussparend, formuliert er Bedürfnisse und Ansichten eines alten Menschen. In seiner kompromisslosen Art befasst sich der 88-Jährige schließlich mit Gedanken an den eigenen Tod.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset’ Sunday Times ‘Illuminating and beautiful’ Cathy Rentzenbrink With the End in Mind is a book for us all: the grieving and bereaved, the ill and the healthy. By turns touching and tragic, funny and wise...

Seine Idee rettet Millionen Menschenleben. Im Jahr 1999 macht Ingmar Hoerr als Doktorand in einem Tübinger Labor eine überraschende Entdeckung: mRNA funktioniert als Impfstoff. Über zwanzig Jahre später schützt sich die Welt mit eben solchen mRNA-Impfstoffen vor dem Coronavirus: mit den Vakzinen von BioNTech, Moderna und CureVac. Zwischen Experiment und Triumph liegen zwei Jahrzehnte hartnäckigen Forschens. Mehrfach wäre Ingmar Hoerr mit CureVac fast gescheitert, hätte er nicht Dietmar Hopp, Bill Gates und Elon Musk von seiner Vision überzeugt.

Für die meisten von uns ist es die größte Angst, einen geliebten Menschen zu verlieren oder eine schwere Krankheit zu bekommen. Doch wie kann ein Leben gelingen, wenn einem beide Katastrophen widerfahren? Als Anja Caspary die Diagnose Brustkrebs erhält, ist der Schock zunächst riesig. Statt sich mit der Frage nach dem Warum aufzuhalten oder die Krankheit zu verschweigen, nimmt sie ihr Schicksal selbstbewusst in die Hand.

Brought to you by Penguin. The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from ‘the Adam Kay of mental healthcare’ (The Times) Most of the psychiatric cases in this book are Benji’s patients. Some of them are his family. One...

Schon als kleines Mädchen wollte Stephanie Petersen Tierärztin werden. Der Liebe wegen strandete sie auf Sylt - dort, wo andere Urlaub machen, führt sie seit fast 20 Jahren ihre eigene Praxis. In ihrem Alltag mit kleinen und größeren Tieren gleicht kein Tag dem anderen, und in all den Jahren hat Dr. Petersen viel erlebt; lustige Begegnungen mit Hunden und ihren Haltern, dramatische Rettungsaktionen und traurige Abschiede von langjährigen Weggefährten, all das vor der großartigen Kulisse der schönsten Insel Deutschlands.

'Darkly funny as well as deeply shocking, [Be Patient] is an antidote to This is Going to Hurt... This is what it's like to be on the other side of Britain's hospital wards' -The Times 'Tilly writes beautifully, with such compassion... the insight that she gives the reader is astonishing.'...

Macmillan Audio presents In My Own Way, Alan Watts's acclaimed autobiography, published for the first time in audio. In this audiobook, Alan Watts tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a freewheeling spiritual teacher who...

When molecular biologist Becky McClain raised urgent alarms about biosafety lapses at her biotech lab at Pfizer, she expected concern—not retaliation. Instead, her warnings about dangerous, genetically engineered viruses that were handled without following standard safety protocols were met with hostility, intimidation, and ultimately, devastating illness after a workplace exposure changed her life forever.

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . . From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is...

In 1988, James Orbinski, then a medical student in his 20s, embarked on a year-long research trip to Rwanda, a trip that would change who he would be as a doctor and as a man. Investigating the conditions of pediatric AIDS in Rwanda, James confronted widespread pain and suffering, much of it preventable, much of it occasioned by political and economic corruption. Fuelled by the injustice of what he had seen in Rwanda, Orbinski helped establish the Canadian chapter of Mdecins Sans Frontires (Doctors Without Borders/MSF).

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months.

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.

One of NPR’s 2025 “Books We Love” “Delano’s story is compelling, important and even haunting. . . . Her memoir evokes Girl, Interrupted for the age of the prescription pill. . . . In Unshrunk, she tells her own story, and she tells it powerfully.” —Casey Schwartz, The New York...

#1 New York Times Bestseller The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents “An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story…Gripping...

Petra Frey, Schauspielerin und Hospizbegleiterin erzählt von den anderen Momenten in der Sterbebegleitung. Geschichten vom Tod, wie sie nur das Leben schreiben kann. Eine Reise in eine besondere Zeit, in der auch Sie einmal die Reiseleitung sein werden.

Was auf dem Land rund um die Geburt von Kindern so alles geschieht, wie sich eine beherzte Hebamme manchmal zum Wohle von Mutter und Kind in das Eheleben einmischen muss, welche Familie an weiteren Kindern besonders schwer trägt und wo trotz aller Mühsal doch Frieden und Harmonie herrschen, dies erzählt Rosalie Linner in einem neuen Band ihrer überaus beliebten Landhebammen-Geschichten. Alle Schilderungen beruhen auf den wahren Erlebnissen der Autorin. Und auch viele Jahre später empfand sie für viele Kinder noch eine besondere Fürsorge und nahm Anteil an deren weiterem Schicksal.

The number one Sunday Times bestseller. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In...