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On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Kalanithi chronicles his transformation from a naïve medical student into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
"For readers of...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The author answers many of the most common questions he has been asked in more than thirty years of treating patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Significant lung damage from smoking, exposure in some jobs, or even diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis can lead to COPD. Having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can leave you feeling short of breath, sometimes reluctant to go shopping or for a walk because you are afraid of more...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"We take an average of 7.5 million breaths a year and some 600 million in our lifetime, and what goes on in our body each time oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide expelled is nothing short of miraculous. "Our lungs are the lynchpin between our bodies and the outside world," writes Dr. Michael J. Stephen. And yet, we take our lungs for granted until we're incapacitated and suddenly confronted with their vital importance. In Breath Taking, pulmonologist...
5) The lungs
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Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains how the lungs and respiratory system function. Readers are introduced to the bronchial tree, discover how the diaphragm and intercostals muscles help the lungs fill and empty. Includes sections on the dangers of smoking, good health practices, respiratory illnesses, and amazing facts.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative, accessible guide to how our lungs work and how to protect them. Most of us pay little attention to the workings of our lungs, but the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked interest in their functioning and fear about the risks they face. Dr. MeiLan K. Han, a leading pulmonologist and a national spokesperson for the American Lung Association, takes readers on a fascinating tour of this most vital organ. Han explains the wonder of breathing...
10) Tuberculosis
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Publisher
Lucent Books/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
By the dawn of the nineteenth century, tuberculosis had killed one in seven of all the people who had ever lived. The disease struck America with a vengeance, ravaging communities and touching the lives of almost every family. The battle against the deadly bacteria had a profound and lasting impact on the country, It shaped medical and scientific pursuits, social habits, economic development, western expansion, and government policy. The story is...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed opera singer who received double lung transplants and went from struggling to draw a single breath to singing at the most prestigious venues in the world shares her extraordinary tale of triumph in which she, with love, overcame devastating challenges to reclaim her life and follow her musical dreams.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"cademy Award–nominated actor Richard E. Grant’s memoir about finding happiness in even the darkest of days. Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her...
16) COPD for dummies
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Recognize the signs of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and take advantage of the latest treatments.
Author
Series
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Although COPD is the third leading cause of death in the United States, few books provide a comprehensive approach to living with this condition. Now, with The COPD Solution, respiratory therapist and educator Dawn Lesley Fielding brings her twelve-week sustainable program--which has a 100 percent success rate in improving the health of her own patients--to the public. Fielding provides invaluable information on diagnosis, medical treatments, physical...
Series
AHRQ publication volume o. 03-E 009
Publisher
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
19) El buen doctor
Author
Publisher
Oceano
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
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Paul Kalanithi, a young and promising neurosurgeon, received a devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty-six. He was a doctor treating patients one day and the next was struggling for his own life. On the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training, he decided to begin writing this book to come to terms with and give closure to his life, and to face death with courage. What makes a life worth living in the face of death?...
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