As I Live and Breathe
Subtitle: Notes of a Patient-Doctor
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: June 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780865476028
Subjects: Patients; Weisman, Jamie; Medical; Health; Biography / Autobiography; Physicians; Physician & Patient; Medical - Physicians; Women; Biography & Autobiography / Medical; Georgia; Biography; Immunological deficiency syndr; Immunological deficiency syndromes
First sentence: In the infusion room at Mount Sinai Hospital, the chairs were a grayish-pink vinyl; they tilted back and the legs rose up, and you could go to sleep.
Description: The memoirs of a doctor with a debilitated immune system offer her insights on health and medicine from the perspectives of both a patient and caregiver.