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Healing (When a Nurse Becomes a Patient)
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Product Details
Author:
Theresa Brown
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company (April 12, 2022)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781643750699
ISBN-10:
1643750690
Dimensions:
5.875" x 8.625" x 0.875"
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hbgusa
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$27.95
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Publisher Identifier:
P-HACH
Discount Code:
A
Case Pack:
12
Weight:
12.8oz
Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
Algonquin Books
Overview
“Deeply moving.” —Damon Tweedy, New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat
New York Times bestselling author Theresa Brown tells a poignant,powerful, and intensely personal story about breast cancer. She brings us along with her from the mammogram that would change her life through her diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, she finds herself continually surprised by the lack of compassion in the medical maze—just as so many of us have. Why is she expected to wait over a long weekend
to hear the results of her cancer tests if they are ready? Where is the empathy from caregivers? Why is she so often left in the dark about procedures and treatments? At times she’s mad at herself for not speaking up and asking for what she needs but knows that being labeled a “difficult” patient could mean she gets worse care.
to hear the results of her cancer tests if they are ready? Where is the empathy from caregivers? Why is she so often left in the dark about procedures and treatments? At times she’s mad at herself for not speaking up and asking for what she needs but knows that being labeled a “difficult” patient could mean she gets worse care.
As she did in her book The Shift, Brown draws us into her work with the unforgettable details of her daily life—the needles, the chemo drugs, the rubber gloves, the frustrated patients—but from her new perch as a patient, she also takes a look back with rare candor at some of her own cases as a nurse and considers what she didn’t know then and what she could have done better.
A must-read for fans of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms, and all of us who have tried to find healing through our health-care system.
