01794cam a2200289 4500 334542222 TxAuBib 20170101120000.0 080311s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008009552 9780316024754 0316024759 (OCoLC)222663496 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP UPZ GOM BUR C#P CDX VP@ DLC TxAuBib Patterson, James, 1947- Against medical advice : a true story / James Patterson and Hal Friedman. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2008. xii, 283 p. ; 25 cm. 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. This 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. 20170101. Tourette syndrome Patients Biography. Obsessive-compulsive disorder Patients Biography. Friedman, Mel, 1946- https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2008009552-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2008009552-d.html Publisher description