"Ghosts". When Your Health Is Gone and Doctors Find Nothing

7 hrs. 48 min.

Medicine & Health

Language Russian

Author Aleksandr Myasnikov

Narrator Maxim Sergeev

Description

The most common illness in the world for which people visit a doctor is not hypertension, not the common cold, not gastritis, and not arthritis. Sixty percent of all patients seeking medical help have no objective reasons for feeling unwell. They are not pretending: they have real pain in the back, joints, or heart; they truly feel nauseated; they may have shortness of breath, double vision, muscle weakness, convulsions, a "lump in the throat," and many other complaints, as a result of which they cannot work normally or do household chores. They are even worse off than patients with a specific chronic disease. These people are not healthy, but their disorder does not fit any disease pattern, and as a result 48 million adult Russians undergo examinations and active treatment in vain. The audiobook is devoted to such disorders, and it contains 4 specific symptoms that make it possible to suspect them in men and women.

"For all the shortcomings of our medicine, competent doctors exist everywhere. They work in a system whose demands do not encourage them to study or to work with greater dedication. So let that incentive be you! If you can pose the question to the doctor correctly, he will be able to get his bearings in time. This is not self-treatment: you do not have to be a tailor to judge whether a suit is well made or not. I hope the book will help you correctly assess the 'cut of the suit,' and our doctors will 'fit' it to your figure. Be healthy"

Your doctor Myasnikov

Contents:

Preface
Chapter 1 The Most Common Disease in the World
1. Hypochondria
2. That Very Munchausen
Chapter 2 Wandering Womb and Conversion
1. Weakness
2. Sensory Disturbances
3. Convulsions
4. The Feeling of a Lump in the Throat
5. Tremor and Other Types of Involuntary Body Movements
6. Tinnitus
7. Dizziness
Chapter 3 About Countesses, Smelling Salts, and Fainting…
Chapter 4 The Sixth Sense — Pain!
1. Headache
2. Does Your Back Hurt? Go to the Dentist!
3. Lower Back Pain
4. Not Every Stomach Ache Means Something Serious
Chapter 5 Fibromyalgia — an Unknown Disease Suffered by Half the Population
Chapter 6 Aversion to Any Kind of Work… Is Not Yet Chronic Fatigue Syndrome!
Chapter 7 Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome…, or Do Women Suffer from Prostatitis?!
1. Was There Even a Boy, or What Does the Prostate Have to Do with It?
2. A Hard Woman's Lot…
Chapter 8 Panic Attacks and What They Treat with Tarantulas
Chapter 9 What Offends Our Stomach and Angers the Intestines?!
1. Functional Dyspepsia, or the "Offended Stomach"
2. Irritable Bowel Syndrome
3. Dysbacteriosis
4. Constipation
5. Gas!
Chapter 10 The Five Wounds of Christ…
Chapter 11 Immaculate Conception and Can a Man Get Pregnant?!
Chapter 12 Premenstrual Syndrome
Chapter 13 Sleep Disorders and What W. Collins and C. Dickens Wrote About
1. Insomnia
2. Sleep Apnea
Chapter 14 Black Bile
Chapter 15 When the "Basic Instinct" Misfires…
1. Sexual Problems in Men
2. Women's Sexual Problems
Chapter 16 Are Parasites Really as Terrible as They Are Painted?!
Chapter 17 The Princess and the Pea
Chapter 18 Do We Know Everything About Painkillers?!
1. "Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs"
2. "Aspirin"
3. "Paracetamol"
4. Antidepressants
5. Anticonvulsants
6. Drugs That Relieve Muscle Spasm
7. "Tramadol"
8. Algorithms for the Use of Painkillers
9. Some Issues in the Treatment of Osteoarthritis
Chapter 19 Why the Chapter About Doping Ended Up in a Book… About Somatoform Disorders
Afterword
Stories About Life, Romance, and Myself
1. Grandson of a Turkish Subject
2. An Incident While Hunting
3. Treasure
4. How I Resemble N. S. Gumilev
5. We Are All of One Blood!