Making Miracles Happen

Résumé du livre

Ten years ago, doctors at the Mayo Clinic told thirty-four-year-old Greg Smith that he had an inoperable brain tumor. They gave him three months to live. Today, ten years later, Smith is fit, symptom-free, and managing his tumor with an experimental hormone therapy - living proof that no matter how dire the diagnosis, you don't have to accept a death sentence. In this remarkable book, Smith draws on his own harrowing experiences, and those of other patients who "refused to lie down and die on cue, " to show how medical "miracles" are made: from taking control of health care decisions to exploring experimental treatments; from finding the right questions for your doctor to finding the right doctor for your questions; from developing trust in your caregiver to developing faith in yourself; from battling insurance companies to battling the voice in your head that keeps asking, "Why me?"