Close to the Bone
Subtitle: Life Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning
Publisher: Scribner
Published: April 3, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780684835303
Subjects: Coping with illness; Popular medicine; Psychology; Health/Fitness; Diseases; General; Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues; Mental and Spiritual Healing; Inspirational; Clinical Psychology; Sick
First sentence: In noisy wards crowded waiting rooms of country hospitals and clinics, in quiet private rooms in medical center pavilions or in well-appointed waiting rooms, examining rooms, or offices, wherever there are patients, there are long moments of silence, pauses, sometimes preceded by a sigh, a transient stillness when the air feels heavier.