Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery
 

Against Medical Advice: A True Story

by James Patterson, Hal Friedman

Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to shake his head and his life was never the same again. From that day forward his life became a hell of uncontrollable tics, urges, and involuntary utterances. Eventually he is diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive disorder, and Cory embarks on an excruciating journey from... (read more)

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Connie R
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This was different then I was expecting but I really enjoyed it a lot. It is about a boy that struggled with a lot of different disorders and Turretts Syndrome.

He went from doctor to doctor and everyone suggested something else. How the drugs they put him on made some things better but others worse.

He was shunned by all of his school mates and even the teachers got tired of him.

At one point he was addicted to alcohol just to get to sleep.

I enjoyed...

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