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'Darkly funny as well as deeply shocking, [Be Patient] is an antidote to This is Going to Hurt... This is what it's like to be on the other side of Britain's hospital wards' -The Times 'Tilly writes beautifully, with such compassion... the insight that she gives the reader is astonishing.'...

Brought to you by Penguin. Charlotte Raven had never heard of Huntington's Disease when, in her mid-thirties, she discovered that her father was suffering from the illness. Life for her and her young family would never be the same again. Patient 1 is her brutally candid account of coming to...

Maëlle a 30 ans quand elle apprend qu’elle est atteinte d’un cancer du sein métastatique, réputé incurable. En traitement continu depuis 3 ans, elle fait peu à peu l’expérience inattendue des injonctions à la féminité comme principale urgence face à cette maladie qui tue 12 000 femmes par an en France. En partant de son expérience, et en allant à la rencontre d’autres patient.e.s, d’oncologues, de chirurgien.e.s, de psychologues mais aussi d’associations, de travailleurs et travailleuses sociales, d’entrepreneur.e.

All In My Head is a memoir by a woman who in her early 50s received a life-shattering diagnosis. It is about her determined search for effective treatment, the birth of a campaign to get proper data and funding for research into glioblastoma (GBM), and finally her coming to terms with the knowledge that she has reached the end of the road. 

In When There Are Two Patients in One Body, an experienced Labor and Delivery nurse shares a collection of birth stories, some joyful and others harrowing, that reveal profound life lessons from one of the most intense human experiences. While babies arrive either by vaginal delivery or caesarean section, each birth unfolds uniquely, whether as a momentous and thrilling event or an unexpected and life altering ordeal. This book follows the author's career, presenting a chronological journey through a diverse array of births, each story interwoven with her personal reflections.