TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patterson,James
AU  - Friedman,Hal
TI  - Against medical advice: : a true story
SN  - 9780316024754
U1  - 92 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Friedman, Cory
KW  - Tourette syndrome
KW  - Patients
KW  - Biography
KW  - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
N2  - 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
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