"25 Real Patient Stories" reveals the untold experiences that unfold within the walls of hospitals and outpatient clinics, offering a touching glimpse into the humanity that binds patients and medical professionals together. Join a junior doctor working in psychiatry, family medicine, internal medicine, surgery, and many more medical specialties.Poisonous mushrooms, naked streakers and bodily waste on the walls - follow along 25 crazy, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking stories of real patients. Each story brings to life the raw emotions, tough decisions, and unexpected moments that shape the junior doctor's path through the diverse world of healthcare – and leaves out no details.*Includes 25 stories and three short bonus stories* Read more

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalAs a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose. A twenty-eight-year-old man, vacationing in the Bahamas for his birthday, tries some barracuda for dinner. Hours later, he collapses on the dance floor with crippling stomach pains. A middle-aged woman returns to her doctor, after visiting two days earlier with a mild rash on the back of her hands. Now the rash has turned purple and has spread across her entire body in whiplike streaks. A young elephant trainer in a traveling circus, once head-butted by a rogue zebra, is suddenly beset with splitting headaches, as if someone were “slamming a door inside his head.”In each of these cases, the path to diagnosis—and treatment—is winding, sometimes frustratingly unclear. Dr. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck. Intricate, gripping, and full of twists and turns, Diagnosis puts readers in the doctor’s place. It lets them see what doctors see, feel the uncertainty they feel—and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved. Read more

Updated and Expanded Edition of the Bestselling Book Common Sense Labs!Features the latest medical research and insights, offering a more comprehensive explanation of blood tests.Blood tests are one of the most effective and accessible tools for monitoring your health, but in today’s fast-paced healthcare system, patients often leave the doctor’s office with little understanding of which tests to request, why they’re important, or how to interpret the results. Doctors, often pressed for time, may not fully explain the details, leaving many feeling confused and unsure. In response to this widespread issue, Dr. Ken Berry, a trusted family physician, and Kim Howerton, a certified health coach, have teamed up again to create the updated and expanded edition of their bestselling book Common Sense Labs. Maintaining the clear and accessible format of the original, this edition goes even further to help readers demystify blood work, understand what tests to get, interpret results, and take steps toward better health. In this comprehensive guide, you will discover: Which important lab tests go beyond standard physicians' orders to help you better assess your healthHow to interpret your results beyond the average rangesHow to take control of your health and make informed decisions with confidenceHow blood work can diagnose and help you manage common health conditionsPractical strategies for improving your health based on your lab resultsExpanded and Updated Features: New and Updated Content: This second edition incorporates the latest medical research and insights, offering readers a more comprehensive understanding of a broader range of key blood tests.Clear, Accessible Explanations: Dr. Berry and Howerton break down complex medical concepts into simple, understandable language, empowering you to confidently interpret your own blood work.Trending Health Topics: New sections cover emerging health concerns like inflammation markers, metabolic health, hormone balance, and advanced cholesterol testing, reflecting current trends in preventive care.Tools and Advice: Charts, checklists, and graphs to help readers understand optimal levels for health markers and actively participate in their health journey and track their lab results. With expert insights and practical advice, Common Sense Labs empowers you to take control of your health by understanding your blood work and making meaningful changes for a healthier future. Whether you are aiming to optimize your health, better understand your current lab results, or take proactive steps toward wellness, Common Sense Labs is the essential guide to navigating your blood work with clarity and confidence. Read more

"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." —Time magazineFrom Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this revolutionary book, Dr. Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make, offering direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Drawing on extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors and Groopman's own experiences as a doctor and as a patient, How Doctors Think reveals an important approach to twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients a way to make better judgments together. Read more

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, LONDON STANDARD, NEW STATESMAN AND IRISH TIMES'Covers so many topics that have been troubling me but I hadn't been able to resolve myself - as a parent and a clinician. An absolutely absorbing read' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN'A brilliant study of the dangers of overdiagnosis' - GUARDIAN'Compassionate and bracingly independent thinking' - THE TIMESFrom autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions than ever before. But can a diagnosis do us more harm than good? The boundaries between sickness and health are being redrawn.Mental health categories are shifting and expanding all the time, radically altering what we consider to be 'normal'.Genetic tests can now detect pathologies decades before people experience symptoms, and sometimes before they're even born.And increased health screening draws more and more people into believing they are unwell.An accurate diagnosis can bring greater understanding and of course improved treatment. But many diagnoses aren't as definitive as we think. And in some cases they risk turning healthy people into patients.Drawing on the stories of real people, as well as decades of clinical practice and the latest medical research, Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan overturns long held assumptions and reframes how we think about illness and health.*As heard on Good Morning Britain, Sky News, Radio 4 Today and more.* Read more

In 2008 Dr. Afrin started coming to understand that a newly recognized type of mast cell disease, now called mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), was the underlying diagnosis in many patients he was seeing who were each suffering large assortments — quite different from one patient to the next — of chronic multisystem inflammatory illnesses of unclear cause.  Dr. Afrin soon gained experience that MCAS is far more prevalent than the only mast cell disease previously known to medicine (the rare disease of mastocytosis) and that most MCAS patients, once accurately diagnosed, can eventually find significantly helpful medications targeted at the disease.  The frequency and magnitude of the improvements Dr. Afrin has seen — even the relief that comes from finally having a unifying diagnosis other than "psychosomatism" — have spurred him to focus in this area, not only tending to the needs of his patients but also pursuing research to advance our understanding of the disease and helping to educate other professionals who in turn can help even more of the many people who have long been suffering not only the symptoms of the disease but also the natural concern of not understanding why one would be so "unlucky" to have acquired so many medical problems.  As it turns out, such patients are not so unlucky and truly have just one root issue (and a very common one at that), which has the biological capability to develop, directly or indirectly, into most or all of their previously diagnosed problems.  There is a great deal yet to learn about this, but even with just the present very limited understanding, the opportunity to diagnose and help patients with MCAS seems to be enormous and Dr. Afrin felt a description of the disease, written for the general public, might help lead some MCAS patients on a journey to diagnosis and improvement sooner rather than later.  Dr. Afrin hopes this book will help people who might have, or do have, MCAS.  A portion of the proceeds of purchases of this book will go to support research and education in this area. Read more

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From a neurologist and award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patientsI'm a neurologist. Diagnosis is my bread and butter. So why then would I, an experienced medical doctor, be very careful about which diagnosis I would pursue for myself or would be willing to accept if foisted upon me?We live in an age of diagnosis. The advance of sophisticated genetic sequencing techniques means that we may all soon be screened for potential abnormalities. The internet provides a vast array of information that helps us speculate about our symptoms. Conditions like ADHD and Autism are on the rapid rise, while other new categories like Long Covid are driven by patients themselves.When we are suffering, it feels natural to seek a diagnosis. We want a clear label, understanding, and, of course, treatment. But is diagnosis an unqualified good thing? Could it sometimes even make us worse instead of better?Through the moving stories of real people, neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan explores the complex world of modern diagnosis, comparing the impact of a medical label to the pain of not knowing. With scientific authority and compassionate storytelling, she opens up new possibilities for how we might approach our health and our suffering. Read more

'Authentic, heartbreakingly wonderful and refreshingly grounded — this book captures the internal neurodivergent experience with rare grace and warmth' - Camilla Pang'Tingles with the joy of being different. This book made me so happy' - Chris Packham, naturalist and author of Fingers in the Sparkle JarA powerful, personal exploration of anxiety, ADHD and neurodiversity, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal reminds us all – no matter how weird we feel – that it’s okay to be a little different. We all are. What if being a bit weird is actually entirely normal? What if sharing our internal struggles wasn’t a sign of weakness, but strength?For over thirty years, award-winning broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince has entertained thousands in person and on air. But underneath the surface, a whirlwind was at play – a struggle with sadness, concentration, self-doubt and near-constant anxiety. But then he discovered he had all the hallmarks of ADHD and his stumbling blocks became stepping stones.In Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, Robin uses his own experiences to explore the neurodivergent experience and to ask what the point of 'being normal' really is. Packed with personal insights, intimate anecdotes and interviews with psychologists, neuroscientists and many neurodivergent people he has met along the way, this is a quirky and witty dive into the world of human behaviour.'This is a comforting hug of a book. Insightful, warm, funny and compassionate, it will make readers, whether neurotypical or neurodivergent, feel less alone' - Laura Bates, bestselling author of Everyday Sexism'Weirdness is inescapable, and no one does it better than Robin Ince. A superb book, celebrating the needed weirdness in us all' - Chris Hadfield, astronaut and five-time bestselling author Read more

"This book is really riveting and I found myself grimacing, denying, experiencing shock and awe, nodding and finally understanding so much about her saga and attempts to protect her dying husband from one medical error after another. If you want a good read, pick up 108 Days." - Toni Brayer, MD. Following an explosive electrical accident, Curtis is admitted to one of America's top hospitals with a severe burn injury to 35% of his body. Recovery is soon derailed due to an error in the radiology department which he is not expected to survive. Deadly hospital acquired infections are prevalent and easily spread. Complications, setbacks and additional injuries requiring further treatment are routinely provoked by inconsistent caregivers and chronic neglect.Curtis hovers on the brink of death while his wife, Lisa and her sister, Dawn battle daily in a desperate fight to save his life. Read more

What is causing all of these crazy things inside of me!You’re in a fog, pains move through your head, your weakened body is plagued with pain. You don’t have energy, and confusion haunts you. It hurts to be touched, no one understands - including yourself. You feel abandoned. And you just want to scream.Learn the hidden path - the secret way that no one knows.You need to know what is really going on inside of you. This will allow you to choose the right caregivers, and the right course of care.This book can save years of frustration with failing health, drained finances, and relational abandonment by knowing what it really going on inside of you.Inside, you will find these topics: How Your Weakened Immune System allows sickness to grow.Why Diagnostics Fail - And How To Avoid This.Infections – There’s A Lot More Than You Know.Candida Lyme Connection - The Nightmare.Autoimmune Problems - Toxic Responses.Hormones, Sex, & Frustration - More Toxic Responses.Complications – Worse Than Lyme Disease.And Much Much More…Get informed so you know what to do.“Finally - a book that connects the dots - explains how all of the intricate processes in your body break down to cause all these crazy symptoms.”Get Exposing Lyme today!https://healthfullyu.com/lymebook Read more

Elevate Your Diagnostic Coding Expertise Today!✅ Are you frustrated by claim denials due to inaccurate code assignments?✅ Do you find yourself losing revenue and time because your coding processes lack precision and efficiency?If you're constantly battling coding inaccuracies, lost reimbursements, and the stress of deciphering ambiguous documentation, you’re not alone. We understand how overwhelming it can be when outdated references and inconsistent guidelines hinder your ability to deliver precise diagnostic coding. Every misstep not only impacts your bottom line but also compromises the quality of patient care.Imagine the relief of having a single, reliable resource that not only clarifies complex coding issues but also enhances your diagnostic coding expertise—empowering you to streamline workflows and secure optimal reimbursement. Our desk reference guide is meticulously designed to address these challenges, providing the clarity and confidence you need to succeed.Why This Desk Reference Guide is For You?✅ Rapid Code Lookup: Quickly locate the correct ICD 10 CM code with our streamlined, user-friendly index—saving you valuable time every day.✅ Comprehensive Guidance: Access detailed explanations, specialty-specific insights, and practical examples that cover common diagnoses and complex scenarios, ensuring accuracy.✅ Up-to-Date Accuracy: Stay current with the latest CMS, NCHS, and WHO updates, so you always have the most relevant and precise coding information at your fingertips.✅ Specialty Quick References: Benefit from tailored tables and charts for high-impact specialties like cardiology, oncology, and more—designed to target your specific coding needs.✅ Effective Query Strategies: Learn proven methods for querying ambiguous documentation, reducing errors and preventing claim denials with clear, actionable tips.✅ Optimized Reimbursement: Enhance your diagnostic coding expertise to boost reimbursement rates and ensure compliance with payer requirements, safeguarding your revenue.Imagine transforming your coding workflow into a seamless, efficient process where every claim is accurately coded and approved, your revenue is optimized, and your expertise is recognized.With this guide at your side, you'll eliminate the stress of claim denials, boost your professional reputation, and ultimately achieve the precision and efficiency you’ve always dreamed of in your coding practice. Take control of your coding success—start your journey to excellence today! Read more

"Say No to Thyroid Surgery" provides a comprehensive exploration into the management and treatment of thyroid conditions, emphasizing avoiding unnecessary surgical interventions.The book showcases a detailed examination of minimally invasive techniques, such as Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) and Microwave Ablation (MWA), offering new insights into their efficacy, practical application, and real-life strategies for patients.A significant portion of the book is dedicated to the concept of active surveillance, a method particularly advocated for certain types of thyroid cancer, like papillary microcarcinomas, that often do not require immediate surgical intervention.It presents compelling data demonstrating that, in many cases, active surveillance can significantly reduce the instances of complications associated with surgery, such as vocal cord paralysis and hypoparathyroidism, without compromising the treatment outcomes.Through active surveillance, the book argues for a patient-centered approach to thyroid cancer treatment, underscoring the importance of personalized care and the need to avoid overtreatment. It challenges the traditional rush towards surgery, presenting evidence that a watchful waiting strategy can lead to better psychological well-being for patients, with a minimal number of cases showing tumor growth or the development of small lymph nodes over time.The book effectively makes the case that for a significant number of patients, the best treatment may involve no surgery at all."Say No to Thyroid Surgery" is an essential read for anyone navigating the complexities of thyroid disease. It educates patients about their options and serves as a critical resource for healthcare providers, encouraging a shift towards more conservative, patient-centric management of thyroid conditions. Read more

“Stress causes disease. Redox imbalance is why.” From that seven-word thesis, “One Disease: Redox Imbalance” builds the provocative case that stress-driven imbalance in the body’s oxidation/reduction (redox) systems, is central to the onset and progression of chronic diseases ranging from aging to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, mental illness and more. Author Michael Sherer has synthesized research drawn from over 250,000 articles on Pubmed, a repository of global medical research, to explain what redox imbalance is, why you and even your doctor are likely unaware of it, and to explore the role your body’s redox systems play in maintaining health, building resilience to future stress, and, when overtaxed or damaged, lead to symptoms and disease. The science behind “One Disease: Redox Imbalance” is drawn from over three decades of research from the field of redox biology. In the 2015 publication of “The Redox Code,” researchers Helmut Sies and Dean Jones placed redox systems in the pivotal role of mediating the body’s adaptation to environmental change (stress). The implications of this assertion are far-reaching, namely, that malfunctioning of these redox systems was central to all disease. The publication of this book represents one of the first efforts to raise public awareness and understanding of this complex but important body of scientific research while providing practical applications that anyone can adopt and benefit from. Read more

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When I see patients in the hospital or in my office who are suddenly, surprisingly ill, what they really want to know is, ‘What is wrong with me?’ They want a road map that will help them manage their new surroundings. The ability to give this unnerving and unfamiliar place a name, to know it—on some level—restores a measure of control, independent of whether or not that diagnosis comes attached to a cure. Because, even today, a diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer." A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory—making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment—only to have their symptoms mysteriously return. A young woman lies dying in the ICU—bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent—and none of her doctors know what is killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Lisa Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis. Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood. In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness—the diagnosis—revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient’s story, the challenges of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Sanders chronicles the real-life drama of doctors solving these difficult medical mysteries that not only illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but often save the patients’ lives. Read more

Amazon Best SellerBest Book Award FinalistYou must see the doctor……It can’t be avoided.Why do you hate it so much?Dr. Michael Lewis is a family physician and has spent the last 20 years honing his skills. Recognized as an expert in the field, he has been invited to be on local and international news (TV and radio). He is married and has one awesome kid!A Manual. A Memoir. A Rant.Do you want to know what doctors go through?Are you a patient frustrated with healthcare?Are you a physician burning out?Do you deserve a better life? Better care?You'll learn:The barriers to delivering compassionate careHow self-care improves patient careWhy physicians do what they doWhy doctors are burning outThe disturbing situations that affect physicians' decisions and their life choicesAnd so much more!An authentic look at the barriers to delivering compassionate medical careNo stone is left unturned as he examines the demise of compassion in medicine.Take this journey with Dr. LewisI'm grateful for the many lessons that my patients and fellow medical professionals have taught me, but let me be frank, "I didn't sign up for this..."You won’t believe the twists and turns this book will take you… Get the book now! Read more

Up to date and extensively revised to reflect recent advances in the genetics of common diseases, as well as current progress in gene therapy, Medical Genetics, 6th Edition, delivers easy-to-read, highly visual coverage of this rapidly changing field. This accessible, practical text integrates key concepts with clinical practice, highlighted by numerous illustrations, tables, concept summaries, and more – all designed to enhance effective learning and retention of complex material. Discusses current topics including polygenic risk scores and their potential applications for diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, and the latest sequencing technologies and their clinical application in genetic testing and diagnosis.Offers a completely updated discussion of genetic testing modalities and applications.Includes convenient concept summaries, more than 230 photographs, illustrations, and tables, as well as patient/family vignettes that present valuable perspectives on disease and treatment.Features Clinical Commentary boxes that demonstrate how the hard science of genetics has real applications to everyday patient problems, preparing you for problem-based integrated courses.Illustrates key concepts with disease examples to demonstrate relevance to medicine.Provides study questions for self-assessment, as well as 200 additional USMLE-style questions online.Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. Read more

This book was originally written after feedback suggested that storytelling was very helpful to students and practitioners wanting to remember blood tests and their implications. Each section, where appropriate, therefore contains a ‘story’, as well as an overview of the relevant anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. This revised, updated edition continues to use storytelling to aid understanding, and introduces a unique 10-point system to help explain blood results. The use of storytelling has also been significantly improved and refined, following several years of feedback on the first edition. Less formal than a biochemistry textbook and containing more narrative than an online protocol, Blood Results in Clinical Practice provides an excellent, accessible introduction to blood tests and what they mean. It also enables advanced practitioners to reflect on and improve their practice; and includes new and updated sections of relevance to physiotherapists, paramedics, pharmacists and advanced nurse practitioners. Finally, it provides a resource for patients and their relatives who may be keen to know more about the meaning and function of particular blood tests. Read more