Healing Stories Network

The Reading Room

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

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

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

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