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"A trailblazing conversation-starting history of women's health-from Ancient Greece to hormones and autoimmune diseases--brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative"--
Cleghorn was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. She turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. Here she...
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"Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her...
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"A groundbreaking and definitive account of the widespread misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder--and its serious effects on children, adults, and society. More than 1 in 7 American children are getting diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)--three times what experts have said is appropriate--making it one of the most mishandled and debated conditions in medicine. The numbers are rising every year. Now doctors...
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A primary care doctor is skeptical of his patient’s concerns. A hospital nurse or intern is unaware of a drug’s potential side effects. A physician makes the most “common” diagnosis while overlooking the signs of a rarer and more serious illness, and the patient doesn’t see the necessary specialist until it’s too late. A pharmacist dispenses the wrong drug and a patient dies as a result.
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One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records, chronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on the threshold of a new, adult life, a healthy, ambitious...
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The ADHD label had been rampantly overused on children with completely different problems when the controversial first edition of ADHD was praised by practitioners and parents alike as a timely book whose message was long overdue. This new edition includes a complete revision of the chapter on medication, detailing when to use certain drugs and the side effects that can be expected, and including a thorough review and update of older medications....
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Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will die as a result. Watson delivers a patient-centered blueprint on how to transform the patient-safety movement, and provides key safety habits that people must learn to recognize so they can be sure hospital personnel use them during every patient encounter.
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Examining the social, medical, and economic ramifications of a health care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients, Welch makes a reasoned call for change that would save us from countless unneeded surgeries, debilitating anxiety, and exorbitant costs.
11) I (Athena)
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Nunatak first fiction volume 59
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"As a young girl in the 1960's, Athena lost her hearing to a fever but was misdiagnosed by the town physician as "profoundly retarded". Institutionalized for over thirty years before finally being released, Athena is awkward and bookish. She is learning to integrate into mainstream society for the first time in her life, where nothing is quite what it seems and nothing works quite like she thinks it should. Athena researches her past, trying to understand...
15) Dough nation: a nurse's memoir of Celiac disease from missed diagnosis to food & health activism
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Sharing her extensive research, professional experience, investigative journalism, and personal history, health activists Nadine Grzeskowiak takes us on a journey from the throes of Celiac disease to the thriving health of a mountain climber...Dough Nation investigates the health, social, political and economic factors regarding gluten intolerance and Celiac disease, and how "the largest untapped market in the world is being manipulated."...This provocative...
17) Gabe
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Gabe, a college graduate with a severe form of muscular dystrophy, receives a new diagnosis with a doubled life expectancy. He sets out to make a life he never thought he would have with an inspiring combination of bravery, humor, and love.
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Kathryn was a normal, healthy, nine-year-old child. She was a star student, athlete and dancer. Suddenly, Kathryn underwent alarming rapid-onset OCD and began refusing to eat or drink. Within a matter of days, she became completely dysfunctional. She developed intense separation anxiety and would become panicked if her parents were not in sight. Kathryn experienced difficulty sleeping and showed signs of age regression in both her vocabulary and writing...
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The time has come for debunking ADHD and exposing how this invented disorder created to drug children that does not exist. Despite unanimous agreement that no test exists to identify ADHD, 6.4 million American children are labeled with ADHD. To make matters worse, approximately two-thirds of those children diagnosed with ADHD are prescribed drugs with many dangerous side effects, which include more serious mental disorders and death. After six decades...
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"At age 18 Alysia Sawchyn was diagnosed with bipolar I. Seven years later she learned she had been misdiagnosed. A Fish Growing Lungs takes the form of linked essays that reflect on Sawchyn's diagnosis and its unraveling, the process of withdrawal and recovery, and the search for identity as she emerges from a difficult past into a cautiously hopeful present. Sawchyn captures the precariousness of life under the watchful eye of doctors, friends, and...
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