In the Country of Illness Comfort And Advice for the Journey

Robert Lipsyte explains that when we get sick, we cross a frontier into another country--a land with its own boundaries and customs, its own language, rules, and power structure. It is a place the author has visited often, led there by battles with his and his wife's cancer, and by the illness of his father and friends. He offers invaluable advice for patients and for the people close to them on dealing with hospital staff, what questions to ask, how to ask for a second opinion, how to understand hospital-speak, how to be insistent without being unnecessarily aggressive, what kind of gesture can encourage proper attention, how to complement hospital care, and much more. In the Country of Illness provides a lucid, witty, candid, and heart-warming book to be read even before it is needed.Lipsyte, Robert is the author of 'In the Country of Illness Comfort And Advice for the Journey' with ISBN 9781596873889 and ISBN 1596873884.