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. 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Theresa Brown ,
Abby Craden
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Imprint: Algonquin Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 14.20cm
Weight: 0.159kg
ISBN: 9798200881017
Publication Date: 12 April 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Theresa Brown, BSN, RN, is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. Her writing appears on CNN.com and in The American Journal of Nursing, JAMA, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She has been a guest on MSNBC Live and NPR's Fresh Air and is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Shift. Her first book was Critical Care. She has a PhD in English from the University of Chicago and lectures nationally and internationally on issues related to nursing, health care, and end of life. Abby Craden is a professional actress and voice artist who can be heard in numerous TV and radio commercials, video games, and audiobooks. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2012, Abby is an award-winning stage actress and a resident artist with the prestigious theater A Noise Within.
