{"product_id":"healing-when-a-nurse-becomes-a-patient-9781643750699","title":"Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Deeply moving.\" --Damon Tweedy, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Man in a White Coat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Shift\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/i\u003e, Suleika Jaouad's \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Kingdoms\u003c\/i\u003e, and all of us who have tried to find healing through our health-care system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Algonquin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643750699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Theresa Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41614544339125,"sku":"9781643750699","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_220d1892-28ac-4cd2-92a9-b8da9d3522a0.jpg?v=1644902195","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/healing-when-a-nurse-becomes-a-patient-9781643750699","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}