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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Last Patient of the Night (An AJ Docker Medical Thriller, #1)

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

You've Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy

No One’s Coming: The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There’s Nowhere Else to Turn

The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

All About Allergies: Everything You Need to Know About Asthma, Food Allergies, Hay Fever, and More

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton

Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

The Glass House (Menzies Mental Health #1)

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right

See One, Do One, Teach One: The Art of Becoming a Doctor: A Graphic Memoir

The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic

Organisch: Was es wirklich bedeutet, auf unseren Körper zu hören

The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life

On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well

In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure

Night Shift (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #13)

The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

You Went to Emergency for What?: Bizarre, bloody and baffling true stories from the hospital ED

Ten things I wish you knew about your child's mental health

Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

Manner of Death (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #14)

The Vagus Nerve Reset: Train your body to heal stress, trauma and anxiety

How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

Why We Drink Too Much: The Impact of Alcohol on Our Bodies and Culture

Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity

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“ The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care. I asked myself what I believed. I had never p The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care. I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, I wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organized religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs. Quite simply, I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking, and honorable. If I did that, if I was good to my family, true to my friends, if I gave back to my community or to some cause, if I wasn't a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believed that should be enough. At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, 'But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven.' If so, I was going to reply, 'You know what? You're right. Fine.' I believed, too, in the doctors and the medicine and the surgeries--I believed in that. I believed in them. A person like Dr. Einhorn [his oncologist], that's someone to believe in, I thought, a person with the mind to develop an experimental treatment 20 years ago that now could save my life. I believed in the hard currency of his intelligence and his research. Beyond that, I had no idea where to draw the line between spiritual belief and science. But I knew this much: I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe--what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in the treatment, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing, I decided. It had to be. Without belief, we would be left with nothing but an overwhelming doom, every single day. And it will beat you. I didn't fully see, until the cancer, how we fight every day against the creeping negatives of the world, how we struggle daily against the slow lapping of cynicism. Dispiritedness and disappointment, these were the real perils of life, not some sudden illness or cataclysmic millennium doomsday. I knew now why people fear cancer: because it is a slow and inevitable death, it is the very definition of cynicism and loss of spirit. So, I believed. ...more ”
― Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

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