Against Medical Advice
One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery
By James Patterson; Hal Friedman
(Little, Brown and Company, Hardcover, Large Print, 9780316025041, 368pp.)
Publication Date: October 20, 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Compact Disc, Compact Disc
Categories: Personal Memoirs, Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior, Specific Groups - Special Needs
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Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. The only certainty is that it kept getting worse. Simply put: Cory Friedman's life was a living hell.
AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE is the true story of Cory and his family's decades-long battle for survival in the face of extraordinary difficulties and a maddening medical establishment. It is a heart-rending story of struggle and triumph with a climax as dramatic as any James Patterson thriller.
James Patterson's most recent bestseller is 7th Heaven. He is one of the best known and best selling authors of all time. He lives in Florida.
Hal Friedman has published five works of fiction. He lives with his wife, Sophia, at the edge of a forest, in northern New Jersey.
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