Healing when a nurse becomes a patient
"When a cancer nurse becomes a cancer patient, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, sometimes furious patient she's ever encountered: herself. A frank look at struggling with illness while navigating the health care maze."--
| Main Author: | Brown, Theresa (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill, North Carolina :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"When a cancer nurse becomes a cancer patient, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, sometimes furious patient she's ever encountered: herself. A frank look at struggling with illness while navigating the health care maze."-- |
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| Physical Description: |
258 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256). |
| ISBN: |
9781643750699 1643750690 |
| Author Notes: |
Theresa Brown, RN, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shift , is a New York Times contributor. Her writing also appears on CNN.com and in the American Journal of Nursing , the Journal of the American Medical Association , and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . She has been a guest on MSNBC Live and NPR's Fresh Air . Her first book was Critical Care , and during what she calls her past life, she received a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. She lectures nationally and internationally on issues related to nursing, health care, and end of life. Find her at theresabrown.com |