Healing Stories Network

The Reading Room

Honest, first-person companions to the conditions, treatments, and choices explored across our library.

Dupuytren's slowly curls fingers along inherited cords. The tabletop threshold, the three treatment doors and their recurrence ...

Dumping syndrome is a documented, common aftermath of stomach surgery that patients learn about from each other. Early vs late ...

The research on postoperative cognitive decline in older adults is substantial; the family-facing information is nearly nonexis...

Adult tonsillectomy earns its folklore: day four to eight is the ambush. Veterans share the around-the-clock playbook, the two-...

A guide to our Medical Procedures & Surgeries shelf — twelve anthologies of first-person testimony, from appendectomy and h...

Shoulder pain that makes reaching and sleeping miserable. What the rotator cuff is, how injuries are treated, and what surgery ...

A common operation that can bring relief, and a lot of questions. What a hysterectomy is really like, the different types, reco...