The patient experience the importance of care, communication, and compassion in the hospital room
Brian Boyle tells a personal story of his fight back from near death after a horrific automobile accident. He focuses on his experience as a patient who, while in a two-month long medically induced coma, was unable to move or talk to anyone around him, yet he was able to hear, see, and feel pain. Br...
| Main Author: | Boyle, Brian. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Skyhorse Publishing,
2015
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| Summary: |
Brian Boyle tells a personal story of his fight back from near death after a horrific automobile accident. He focuses on his experience as a patient who, while in a two-month long medically induced coma, was unable to move or talk to anyone around him, yet he was able to hear, see, and feel pain. Brian slowly clawed his way back to the living and found the strength to live to tell his story in his acclaimed memoir, 'Iron Heart'. Now Brian provides vital information from the patient's perspective to help caregivers gain valuable insight that will help them understand new ways on how to provide care to both patients and their families. |
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| Physical Description: |
245 p. |
| ISBN: |
9781632207104 1632207109 |
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