Nerve : A Physician Turned Patient and Her Courageous Recovery From Traumatic Brain Injury / by Michele T. Pato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pato, Michele T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine.

Neurology.

Clinical Medicine.

Local Subjects:

Clinical Medicine.

Neurology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

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.

Contents:

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. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Pato, Michele T. Nerve

ISBN:

3-031-33433-7