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[2018]
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When young, beautiful Cassie Jensen arrives unconscious to the intensive care ward at St. Catherine?s hospital after being struck in a hit-and-run while out walking her dog, chief nurse Alice Marlowe thinks she looks familiar. She starts digging deeper into Cassie?s relationships, only to discover something about her patient that she?d been keeping secret from everyone, including her devoted husband and family. Soon Alice finds herself obsessed with...
2) The whispers
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The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
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276 pages
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In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lives in healing temples in Kerala; an...
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
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1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient, seeks help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin. When the doctor leaves town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows--showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat. Bob becomes the houseguest that just won't leave.
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After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer--an old friend of Sean King--to look into the case. But en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body.
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An adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak (22), a young man with Down syndrome runs away from a nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending the wrestling school of The Salt Water Redneck. Through circumstances beyond their control, Tyler (32), a small-time outlaw on the run becomes Zak's unlikely coach and ally.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
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viii, 369 p. ; 24 cm.
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After surviving an auto accident that broke nearly every bone in her body and plunged her into a coma, successful businesswomen and happily married Casey Marshall realizes that although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. She quickly discovers that her friends aren't necessarily the people she thought them to be--and that her accident might not have been an accident at all.
9) 55 steps
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
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Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the accident, Sam-a thirteen-year old synesthete with an...
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2012
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"In this swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her inexplicable descent into madness and the brilliant, lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn?t happen. A team of doctors would spend a month--and more than a million dollars--trying desperately to pin down a medical explanation for what had gone wrong. Meanwhile, as the days passed and her family, boyfriend, and friends helplessly stood watch by her bed, she...
13) Survival lessons
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One of America's most beloved writers shares her suggestions for finding beauty in the world even during the toughest times.
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Arcopress
Pub. Date
2022.
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190 pages ; 22 cm.
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"In this her first book, Raquel Marugan tells us about her own personal experience after being diagnosed with throat cancer. This unexpected turn marks a turning point in her life. A way of living that trapped her forever. A chronicle that began in the country of uncertainty and ends in the world of hope. An exciting journey in which cancer led her to cross the border between the ordinary and the extraordinary. To play it all or nothing in order to...
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Like all sisters, Molly and Robin Snow share a deep bond that sustains them through good times and bad. In the prime of their lives, their careers are flourishing when Molly receives the shocking news that Robin has suffered a massive heart attack, and the prognosis is grim. At the hospital, the Snow family is informed that Robin may never regain consciousness again. As the family struggles to cope, the complex nature of the sisters' relationship...
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"Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. Returning home, exhausted, the driver lets the car drift off the road into a tree. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one is sent through the windshield. He is declared brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. His heart is still beating.The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding a fatal accident and a resulting heart transplant as life is taken from...
17) Five feet apart
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Two teenagers suffering from cystic fibrosis meet at the hospital and fall in love, but the nature of their condition dictates that they keep at least six feet away from each other to avoid the risk of cross-infection.
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In this episode of Nova, three women at risk of developing Alzheimer's join a groundbreaking study to try to prevent the disease, while sharing their ups and downs, anxiously watching for symptoms, and hoping they can make a difference.
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Da Capo Lifelong
Pub. Date
2009
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xxix, 226 p. ; 21 cm.
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This is the powerful story of the author's struggle with multiple sclerosis and how a healer's unusual prescription of mindful altruism--to "give away 29 gifts in 29 days"--ignited her energy, her happiness, and invited more abundance into her life.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
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xix, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness--only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. In January 2015, Barbara Lipska--a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness--was diagnosed with melanoma that...
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