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 |
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Who am I?. Day one ; Rage ; Bob & Wendy ; First you cry ; Storytelling ; An ideal patient ; What we talk about when we talk about amputation ; My radiologist ; Reason not the need ; Revelations ; I lost you
- Nurse Brown, MIA. Balance ; Bedside manner ; Not on the list ; Theresa in cancerland, part I ; Theresa in cancerland, part II ; Nature/nurture ; Chemo: yes or no ; RadOnc ; Slow burn ; Pickles ; A friend in need ; Spatchcock
- Out of the frying pan. Tam ; Tam, continued ; Tam, conclusion ; On the side ; Figures of speech
- The long haul. Pronouncememt ; Survivor ; A body in motion ; Just a few breast cancer patients sitting around talking ; Back to work ; Turtles ; One-year mammogram ; Moving ; Sue Larson ; Two afternoons in hospice ; The new road ; Epilogue.