Title: Dancing at the river's edge
Subtitle: a patient and her doctor negotiate life with chronic illness
First published: 2008
Description: An invaluable resource for medical professionals, victims of chronic illnesses, and their loved ones, this dual memoir by a doctor and his longtime patient traces the growth of their unique friendship over a span of decades. By exploring the bond between caregiver and sufferer, this sensitive account evokes not only the constant day to day frustrations and emotional toll suffered by the chronically ill, but also an understanding of the mental struggles and conflicts that a conscientious doctor must face in deciding how best to treat a patient without compromising personal freedoms. In alternating chapters, the narrative explores the frustration, joy, despair, grief, and pain on both sides of the doctor-patient relationship.
Subjects: Autoimmune diseases in women, Rheumatologists, Patients, Nonfiction, Chronically ill, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Autoimmune diseases, Rheumatology, Women, diseases, Women, united states, United states, biography, Women, Chronic Disease
Places: United States
People: Alida Brill (1950-), Michael Lockshin (1937-)
LC classification: RC600 .B73 2008