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If You'd Only Listen asks the question: ""How Far Are You Prepared to Go to Save the Life of Someone You Love?"" 371,000 patients die every year in the U.S. from preventable medical errors; 424,000 are left with ongoing disabilities (Johns Hopkins & Harvard). The author and her husband knew nothing of this when they had to move out of state for his liver transplant, due to an impossibly long waiting list in their home state of California.` If You'd Only Listen is a trip through medical hell, but thanks to the author's midwestern tomboy grit and determination, she prevailed over a medical system that seemed bent on defeating her and her husband. The horror is leavened only by the author's wicked sense of humor. The ADDENDUM presents a deep dive into medical errors and offers recommendations for how you can prevent errors from ending the life of someone you love.

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""The book is an adventure story, tracking the travails and eventual successes of a liver transplant patient from the perspective of the patient's wife and caregiver. It is all true while at the same time reading like a medical thriller. I don't know how the author survived all these harrowing events and kept her sanity and sense of humor. She's one tough cookie. -Robert A Nozik, M.D., Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco ""Highest praise for the author's compelling medical drama. She shares a cautionary tale of love and advocacy through her eyes as a life partner whose sweetheart is undergoing a liver transplant. Her skilled and colorful prose transports you into the immediacy of this frightening odyssey. I recommend this book for patients, family members and professionals involved in healthcare today. The Addendum is especially helpful."" -Susan Bartlett, LCSW, CCM, CBIS ""The phrase 'Do No Harm, ' has been attributed to Hippocrates, 4th Century BCE. In 2001, the book To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System was published by the Institute of Medicine, USA. For the first time, errors in the medical health system were dealt with, stating that the problem is not bad people in healthcare, but good people working in a system that needs to be made safer to avoid preventable medical errors. As the author painfully discovered and demonstrates in her book, sadly, this goal has not yet been accomplished."" -Benedicte Dahlerup, M.D., Neurosurgeon, Denmark ""The author has spared no one, not even herself, in this engaging saga of saving her husband's life from hospital medical errors associated with his liver transplant. When it became clear that he could die as a result, she had to push through her midwestern Nice Girl conditioning to fight aggressively for him.In the Addendum, she discusses research on medical errors in the U.S. as well as recommendations for readers about how to prevent mistakes from ending the life of someone they love. Her information was very helpful to me personally when my husband needed surgery. -Deborah Joy, PhD, Counseling Psychologist ""Despite the difficulties she went through, it's easy to be on this journey with the author. Her story of her struggle to save her husband's life after his liver transplant is personal and heartfelt, with the pacing of a medical thriller. Reading her work is like reading the work of a friend, along with resources at the end of the book for readers who may one day need to advocate for their loved one. -Brooke Warner, Founder and CEO of She Writes Press

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Rosie Sorenson, MA, MFT, is a former healthcare administrator and psychotherapist. Rosie's work has appeared in the Literary Medical Messenger, the Los Angeles Times, Mobius, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, University of Iowa Daily Palette and others. Her essays appear in popular anthologies, including the Magic of Memoir: Inspiration for the Writing Journey.In addition, she has been writing political satire for The Progressive Populist for the past six years. Prior to that she wrote a humor column for The Foolish Times for ten years. Awards: Lee Child, Judge for the Black Spring Prize for Best Openings to a Crime Book, included Rosie's story in the top 100- Crime Bits: 100 Opening Gambits for Great Thrillers.The San Francisco Writers Conference 2023 Writing Contest: Finalist for the Introduction to her new memoir: If You'd Only Listen: A Medical Memoir of Gaslighting, Grit and Grace, published in their anthology, What We've Believed.The Joyce Turley Scholarship from the 2020 San Francisco Writers Conference for an essay. The Listener Favorite Award from the popular San Francisco NPR affiliate in its ""Perspectives"" series. Winner in the essay competition from the Writers College, UK and NZ. Honorable Mention in the Erma Bombeck Writing Contest.

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