description: A self-professed traditional physician, Dr. Sidney Winawer had never recommended alternative treatments to his patients. Then his wife, Andrea, was diagnosed with cancer, and even the most advanced tools of medicine could only offer her less than a year to live. Motivated by the desperation this bleak prognosis triggered, Andrea decided to explore the world of alternative medicine and her distraught husband, faced with the imminence of his beloved wife's death, followed close behind.Dr. Winawer is our guide through this exploration, and we watch as he undergoes a personal transformation, both as a husband and as a physician. Though cancer ultimately took Andrea's life, alternative medicine extended it for many precious months. The healing lessons that Dr. Winawer learned in his role as husband to a cancer patient clarified for him both what he had always found suspicious about alternative practices, and what he now understands are the limits of traditional medicine.
language: English
title: Healing Lessons: A Doctor's Story of Love, Loss, and Transformation
titlecomplete: Healing Lessons: A Doctor's Story of Love, Loss, and Transformation
ratings_count: 10
publisher: MacMillan Audio