Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient
Theresa Brown
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Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient
Theresa Brown
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Brown mines her time as a nurse for insights into the health care system’s flaws, never shying away from her own shortcomings.
Brown invites her reader on a roving path which oscillates between two timelines.
Brown offers no gushing gratitude for her care team, nor thankfulness for a chance at personal growth stemming from a life-threatening illness; she wants no part of the 'cancer is a gift' approach. What she does offer lifts Healing above the usual fare in the ever-expanding genre of illness memoir: an unflinching look by a former nurse at the lack of compassion in our health-care system and the harms that patients suffer because of it. A longtime contributor to the New York Times on health-care issues, Brown writes with a winning combination of passion, humor and medical knowledge.
With her aptly named and timed work....Brown weaves her multiple worlds together in this deeply personal memoir.
Revealing and heart-wrenching.