TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patterson,James
AU  - Friedman,Hal
AU  - Patterson,James
TI  - Med head: my knock-down, drag-out, drugged-up battle with my brain 
SN  - 0316076171
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Co.
KW  - Friedman, Cory.
KW  - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
KW  - Patients
KW  - Biography
KW  - Tourette syndrome
N1  - Rev. ed. of: Against medical advice / James Patterson and Hal Friedman
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
ER  -