Biography & Autobiography, Medical
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Too Far from the Path
My Journey Through Madness by Tamara Severson
A fresh and truthful story about the inner workings of schizophrenia. In this memoir Tamara goes deep into the world of madness and shares the experience of prolonged psychosis. Coupled with the artwork that she created, this story is a great...
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Driving Home
Cancer, Concussion, Mom and Me by Steffany Moonaz
Driving Home is a memoir focused on a single year of the author’s life in which she and her 9-year-old daughter moved in with her dying mother, she suffered a traumatic brain injury resulting from being hit by a semi-truck, and she dealt with the...
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Que Sera
A Memoir of Survival from a Congenital Heart Defect by Barry T Cull
“The future’s not ours to see Que sera, sera.” BARRY CULL wasn’t supposed to survive to his fifth birthday. He was born with a hole in his heart at a time when that was a death sentence; however, times were changing, and an experimental surgery...
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Skull Fragments
Expressions of My TBI LIfe by Len Roach
It’s estimated that one in three people have suffered an acquired brain injury in their lifetime. Yet so little is understood about brain health and its various injuries, especially the daily and personal effects. Author Len Roach knows these...
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Mindful of You
A Mother's Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope by Nancy Morgan Mumford
After growing up a happy and carefree child, Paul Mumford found himself totally unprepared for what began happening to him at age twenty-three. This is the compelling, true story of his unpredictable downward spiral into bipolar disorder and...
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How I Got Better From A Traumatic Brain Injury
For anyone who ever had a TBI, past or present by Madeleine Welton
Both incredibly informative and deeply heart-rending, How I Survived a Traumatic Brain Injury tells the story of author Madeleine Welton’s recovery after she sustained a traumatic brain injury in 1993. Her moving account of learning to walk,...
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Searching for Truth
Illusions or Realities by Jacques G. LeBlanc
Searching for truth is not a search for God. It is a journey into the self and what shapes humanity on earth. Truth seeking involves deep introspection and reflection, an open mind and the courage to look into life in our society and our earth....
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The Blind Girl Sees
Seeing Through the Heart and Not the Eyes by Amber Needham
NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER, ranking # 1 in 9 categories on 3 continents. At fifty years of age, Amber Needham suddenly went from having perfect vision to becoming blind. Despite the life-changing tragedy of losing her sight and the...
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In the Footsteps of Disease
Adventures in Pathology by Martin Gwent Lewis M.D.
This is a memoir in the form of adventures of an itinerant pathologist from medical college to cancer research and teaching. The book takes the reader from the streets of the old city of London and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital to medical schools...
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Casebook of a Community Internist
by Hector M Baillie
Experience begets wisdom and wisdom informs change. “Patients are the best teachers,” he told a friend, shortly before moving west. The choice of a specialist career in community internal medicine came as a surprise to his colleagues. Leaving the...