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Science writer Sadie Dingfelder has always known that she’s a little quirky. But while she’s made some strange mistakes over the years, it’s not until she accosts a stranger in a grocery store (whom she thinks is her husband) that she realizes something is amiss. With a mixture of curiosity and dread, Dingfelder starts contacting neuroscientists and lands herself in scores of studies. In the course of her nerdy midlife crisis, she discovers that she is emphatically not neurotypical.

Leading transplant surgeon Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he examines more than one hundred years of remarkable medical breakthroughs, connecting this fascinating history with the stories of his own patients. Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily.

Antonio Linares Rodríguez, médico de profesión, nos presenta una obra autobiográfica donde combina la narración de algunos de los hechos concretos acaecidos a lo largo de su vida con reflexiones sobre cuestiones que importan o pueden importar a cualquiera, independientemente de dónde haya nacido y dónde resida: la fe, el amor, la vejez, la vida o la muerte. Y ambas cosas las hace con habilidad y maestría, con sutileza, como ofreciéndoselas al lector en pequeñas dosis y de manera alternativa, para que el lector las asimile mejor y las disfrute más.

He graduated from medical school. He completed a medical residency. He earned his board-certification in psychiatry. And get this, Ryan never wanted to be a doctor. This book is Ryan's journey back to wholeness from an unfulfilling life as a physician. Prepare yourself, he writes with rigorous honesty. He shares what it took, which was nothing short of everything he had.