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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 610 EAN: 9780060847968 ISBN: 0060847964 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: February 01, 2008 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: January 29, 2008 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey. For many, it is as if they are traveling alone to someplace entirely new, with only faded directions back to their old lives. Often, even their loved ones can only guess at what they must be experiencing. Michael Stein, M.D., uses the stories of his own patients to consider the personal narrative of sickness. Beautifully written and keenly insightful, The Lonely Patient is a valuable book for patients and their caregivers as well as a probing inquiry into this universal experience. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Must read for patients with serious illness and their doctorsMichael Stern, M.D. has succeeded in writing a brief book that captures the isolation of someone who has been diagnosed with a serious, life threatening or terminal illness. Even more importantly, anyone who has symptoms for which there seems to be no diagnosis or relief needs to read "The Lonely Patient". It should be handed out by hospital social workers to those involved in caregiving for those afflicted. The book should also be required reading in medical schools. Dr. ... Read More Rating:  - Don't read this bookThis book is seriously depressing. It takes three or four themes and discusses each theme with regard to a particular patient, lasting way too long without learning anything new. It does not help you navigate the maze of chronic illness, as one book review claims. Rating: - Wonderful book.The Lonely Patient is a warm, deeply empathetic look at what one doctor observed about illness and human nature when he started looking at patients as full human beings experiencing the range of emotion that comes with disease and illness. Stein thought he had a good idea of what illness was like through his practice. Then his brother-in-law Richard was diagnosed with cancer. Watching Richard helped Stein make some keen observations on what illness is truly like for a patient. He also ... Read More Rating:  - Physician takes us into the world of life-changing illness through the stories of his patients Dr. Michael Stein writes with depth and clarity about the difficult emotional and psychological dimensions of serious illness. He tells the stories of his patients - Joanna, Luke, Richard, Leila, Charlie - and we come to know them not so much by name as by the pain and emotional repercussions of the illness they are experiencing. Stein takes us on a journey that is not so much about medical diagnoses and treatment as it is about the inner world of these patients who have serious and debilitating ... Read More Rating: - Philosophical, not scientific, medical book A Crohn's patient since 1973 and a chronic pain patient since 2004, I was drawn to this title. I also buy the nonfiction books for a medium-sized library. This book would be of enormous value to all patients and physicians - should be required reading in medical school, certainly by pain specialists. For chronic pain/illness sufferers, buy your own copy so that you can underline sentences or paragraphs that you would like your family/caregivers/friends to read. It was of ... Read More 
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