01510cam a2200265 4500 55723768 TxAuBib 20090914120000.0 090130s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316024754 26.99 0316024759 26.99 TxAuBib Patterson, James; Friedman. Against Medical Advice / James Patterson and Hal Peterson. 1st Ed. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2008. xxi, 283 p. : English ; 25 cm. Biography. One morning when he was almost five years old, Cory Friedman woke up with the uncontrollable urge to shake his head. From that day forward his life became an agony of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances. Cory embarked on his thirteen-year odyssey of medication upon medication, treatment upon treatment--a constantly changing regimen that left him and his family feeling like guinea pigs in an out-of-control experiment. It soon became unclear which tics were symptoms of his condition and which were side effects from the countless combinations of drugs. The only certainty was that it kept getting worse. Simply put: Cory Friedman's life was a living hell. Adult. 20090130. Friedman, Cory Biography. Tourette syndrome Patients Biography. Obsessive-compulsive disorder Patients Biography.