Declare Books Toward Against Medical Advice
| Original Title: | Against Medical Advice |
| ISBN: | 0316024759 (ISBN13: 9780316024754) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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This is the heart-rending drama of one family's courage, heartbreak, sacrifice, and triumph in confronting an agonizing medical condition, written by two master storytellers.Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck and his life was never the same again. From that day forward his life became a hell of uncontrollable tics, urges, and involuntary utterances. Eventually he is diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive disorder, and Cory embarks on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist, enduring countless combinations of medications in wildly varying doses. Soon it becomes unclear what tics are symptoms of his disease and what are side effects of the drugs. The only certainty is that it kept getting worse. Despite his lack of control, Cory is aware of every embarrassing movement, and sensitive to every person's reaction to his often aggravating presence. Simply put: Cory Friedman's life is a living hell.
Against Medical Advice is the true story of one family's decades-long battle for survival in the face of extraordinary difficulties and a rigid medical establishment.
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| Title | : | Against Medical Advice |
| Author | : | James Patterson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 283 pages |
| Published | : | October 22nd 2008 by Little Brown and Company (first published October 1st 2008) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Medical. Autobiography. Memoir |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 7019 Users | 917 ReviewsAssessment Out Of Books Against Medical Advice
Hmm... well, I had this on my list for a while and then my husband read it and was impressed by it so I finally downloaded it and listened. BTW not sure if it makes a difference but it was an mp3 version not a cd version I listened to. However, it seems to be the same reader, length, etc.I was not impressed with this families story. I was a social worker for several years, so in a lot of ways this book "took me back" to the days when I lived in their drama every day, just as a helper though, notDear James Patterson,It's okay for chapters to be longer than eight paragraphs. Really.~MeI am confused: Hal Friedman is the author, but the book is written from the first person point of view of his son, Cory. Why not call Cory an author as well? Was Hal taking dictation? He says he wasn't. So did he make up everything about how Cory felt and what he thought? This is unclear.
3.5 stars Cory Friedman had an uneventful childhood until he was nearly five years old, when a combination of Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Anxiety Disorder upended his life for 13 years. Cory's story - written by Hal Friedman (Cory's father) and James Patterson - is told in Cory's voice, with the aim of helping other people in a similar situation. Cory's troubles began with a shake of his head shortly before his fifth birthday. Feeling tension in his neck while
Being a grandparent of a special needs kid I cant say enough about this book. It was beautifully written. I often wonder what goes on in the mind of my grandson. This book put things into perspective for me. I highly recommend this book
I was in the middle of reading another book when I saw this in the store. I'm a big fan of James Patterson and it looked interesting so I picked it up and started reading. In no time I had read the first four chapters and decided that I had to buy the book and read it now. I know that Patterson's books read really fast and I knew this would also. I finished this in just a couple of days, which is pretty quick for me now because I have so little time to read.This is the story of a teenage boy
This is basically a memoir of a boy with extreme OCD and Tourette's (written from his notes by his father and James Patterson). I found what he had to deal with both fascinating and horrifying, and there's quite a bit of suspense in the mystery of what will happen next.
Didn't really enjoy this book much--amateurish writing and abrupt ending with no real explanation for how the boy got better.
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