Healing
When a Nurse Becomes a Patient
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022, ©2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 258 pages ; 22 cm
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Subjects:
Brown, Theresa -- Health.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography.
Women nurses -- Biography.
Brown, Theresa -- Health.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography.
Women nurses -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781643750699
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Brown, Theresa | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Brown, Theresa | St. Andrews Indoors | Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Brown, Theresa | Southeast | Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256).