Against medical advice : a true story /
James Patterson and Hal Friedman.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
- xii, 283 p. ; 25 cm.
Follows a family's long struggle with their son's mysterious medical disorder that from the age of five induced violent physical tics and prompted traumatic treatments, a situation that also pitted the family against a disheartening medical establishment.