I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school.--from Birth Day So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly three thousand births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas. In Birth Day, Sloan draws on his personal and professional experience to weave the strands of memoir, history, science, and culture...
I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical s...
50% of people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. This statistic is absolutely terrifying, but guess what?It doesn't have to be you.
When I was 12 years old my mother died of cancer. Because of the chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery she received, her last months were spent in agonizing pain.
After my mother was gone, I made a promise to her in my heart that I would find the cause and cure for cancer so that no child would have to go through what I did, ever again... This book is my promise.
Backed by over 2300 scientific and clinical studies,...
50% of people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. This statistic is absolutely terrifying, but guess what?It doesn't have to be yo...
