Trapped

by Lawrence W. Gold

While medical students suspect that every headache is a brain tumor and that every chest pain is a heart attack, experienced physicians know diseases along a spectrum of horror-the ones they dread the most. Among these are cancer, Alzheimer's, stroke, diabetes, and ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). As the list continues, we come upon locked-in syndrome, a neurologic disease where a victim is awake and alert, but cannot move or communicate due to paralysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493754238
• ISBN13: 9781493754236
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"