Life in the balance
Subtitle: a physician's memoir of life, love, and loss with Parkinson's disease and dementia
By: Thomas Graboys with Peter Zheutlin
Contributors: Zheutlin, Peter
Publisher: Union Square Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781402753411
Subjects: Physicians; Psychology; Cardiology; Patients; Health; Biography; Cardiologists; Parkinson Disease; Personal Narratives; Dementia; Parkinson's disease; Disabled Persons
Description: Chronicles the author's descent from a top cardiologist to a patient slowly succumbing to Parkinson's disease and dementia, including how he struggles with the feelings he experiences daily and the impact of the diseases in his life.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: My days; title: Do they know?; title: Love and marriage; title: Doctors and patient; title: My family; title: Friends; title: A body in motion; title: End game; title: A life beyond illness.