Saving My Neck: A Doctor's East/West Journey Through Cancer

by Timothy McCall

Saving My A Doctor's East/West Journey through Cancer is a riveting memoir that reviewers call a page turner, a spectacular read, a book they could not put down. In 1997, Timothy McCall, MD left a successful medical career to become a yoga therapist. Twenty years later, diagnosed with a Stage 4a metastatic cancer, he returned his focus to the practice of medicine, this time as a patient. He would need all he had learned in both healing worlds…. Dr. McCall, author of the Amazon #1 Bestseller Yoga As Medicine, leads us on a surprise-filled journey from South India to the US and back, from banana, jackfruit and coconut groves to sterile hospital wards. "This kind of integrative approach is the future of health care, and as this book deftly illustrates, it can be the present, too." – Mark Hyman, MD, Director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and #1 New York Times bestselling author, What the Heck Should I Eat? Saving My Neck is for yogis and non-yogis alike. It's for healthcare professionals, holistic healers and those facing health challenges — and anyone who loves a good story. "There is so much wisdom in this heartfelt, moving, and deeply personal book." – Lorenzo Cohen, PhD, Professor and Director, Integrative Medicine Program, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Co-Author, Anticancer Living Saving My Neck is available as a Kindle book as well as a full-color Hardcover. "A masterpiece written from the heart…" – Dilip Sarkar, MD, FACS, DLitt; Associate Professor of Surgery (Retired), Eastern Virginia Medical School; Past President, Board of Directors, International Association of Yoga Therapists "… an inspiring example and guidance for all of us who may deal with the challenge of cancer." –James S. Gordon, MD, Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine; author of Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression; “Saving My Neck is a must read for yoga therapists, and for their clients.” – Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Editor in Chief, International Journal of Yoga Therapy “Dr. Timothy McCall’s new book … is a guide that will change your life.” – Dr. John Douillard, DC CAP, bestselling author of Eat Wheat and Body, Mind and Sport; Founder of LifeSpa.com "I love this book." – Dr. Claudia Welch, DOM, author of Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness Through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine and Western Science

Genres: Health

389 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Genevieve · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a yoga teacher and a family nurse practitioner. Timothy Mccall is an internal medicine physician, yoga teacher and yoga therapist, ayurvedic practitioner and author. I have enjoyed and benefited from his previous writings about yoga so I decided to read this memoir of his journey thru cancer. I was not disappointed.
This is a personal as well as practical view of negotiating the Western and Eastern Medical systems. I appreciated the different viewpoints, obstacles and successes he shared. Currently only in Kindle format, the book version will be available in Spring. I recommend anyone facing a cancer diagnosis who desires to add Eastern based therapies read this book.

[Joyce Stahmann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful and groundbreaking: would be a much better read with some skillful editing

I am a herbalist and health educator and also a yoga enthusiast, so this book fascinated me. The first half was a diary of the author's cancer treatment, and well done. However, the second half of the book had a lot of grammatical and s p telling errors and needed a lot of tightening up and sequencing corrections. All in all, the book was interesting and informative, and I recommend it.

[Martha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stellar

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Applied Ayurveda

As an Ayurvedic Health Counselor, I found this book to be an excellent example of how to use Ayurveda alongside western medicine for optimal results.

[Katherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 I really liked the sections about his diagnosis and conventional mixed with alternative treatment but got bogged down in the latter part of the book.

[Lynn Somerstein · Rating 4 out of 5]

far reaching

We’ll documented and informative, also autobiographical and honest about self and others. Emotionally astute as well. Very worth reading too.