Nerve : a physician turned patient and her courageous recovery from traumatic brain injury / Michele T. Pato.
Pato, Michele Tortora, 1956- author.
2023
RD594
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access
Concurrent users Unlimited
Authorized users Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Details

Title Nerve : a physician turned patient and her courageous recovery from traumatic brain injury / Michele T. Pato.
Author Pato, Michele Tortora, 1956- author.
ISBN 9783031334337 (electronic bk.)
3031334337 (electronic bk.)
9783031334320
3031334329
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33433-7
Published Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 119 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-33433-7 doi
Call Number RD594
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.197481044092
Summary This captivating and clinically illuminating title presents the story of Dr. Michele Pato's personal experience with traumatic brain injury (TBI). With profound candor and humor, Dr. Pato chronicles her journey through the enormous physical, psychological, and emotional challenges encountered following her accident, treatment, and recovery. After years of rehabilitation and reflection, Pato relays her extraordinary story through an engrossing narrative that simultaneously pedagogically serves clinicians who treat TBI, while also offering important insights for patients and caregivers affected by TBI. Across 18 chapters, Pato addresses each physiological aspect of her treatment and recovery, including her battles with aphasia, neuromuscular and memory issues, tinnitus, and vertigo -- to name just several of the setbacks she had to overcome. The book also details Pato's struggle to recover while negotiating a multitude of roles: maintaining a physician-researcher leadership position in academic medicine; managing relationships with her husband (a prominent physician-scientist as well), interacting with family and friends; and, most of all, overcoming the emotional frustrations associated with long-term physical recovery, such as relearning what were once innate motor and speech skills. A riveting account of personal injury that was met with extraordinary determination, patience, grace, and commitment to recovery, Nerve is a unique and valuable resource for clinicians, patients, caregivers and anyone else whose life has been touched by TBI.
Note Includes index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 10, 2023).
Available in Other Form Nerve
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
Preface
1. Grace
2. Head
3. Brain or Bone?
4. Nerves
5. Mind
6. Impatient Patient
7. Tongue-Tied
8. Stitches & Glue
9. Hands
10. Heart
11. Legs
12. Ligament
13. Backbone
14. (Fresh) Eyes
15. Wings
16. Lungs
17. Gut
18. Imagination
Acknowledgments
References & Resources
Glossary.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export