The Lonely Patient: How We Experience Illness

When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey. For many, it is as if they are traveling alone to someplace entirely new, with only faded directions back to their old lives. Often, even their loved ones can only guess at what they must be experiencing. Michael Stein, M.D., uses the stories of his own patients to consider the personal narrative of sickness. Beautifully written and keenly insightful, The Lonely Patient is a valuable book for patients and their caregivers as well as a probing inquiry into this universal experience.

Author: Michael Stein
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/29/2008
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.36w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780060847968

About the Author
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Michael Stein is the author of the award-winning The Lonely Patient as well as five novels. He has been treating addiction for more than twenty years and is a professor of medicine and community health at Brown University.