As I Live and Breathe
"A gorgeously written primer for anyone who has ever been (or ever will be) a patient ... The book soars." — "The San Diego Union-Tribune"
Jamie Weisman was a patient long before she was a doctor. She was born with a rare defect in her immune system that leaves her prey to a range of ailments and crises and that, because it is treatable but not curable, will keep her a patient for life. In this probing and inspiring book, she brings her sojourns on both sides of the doctor-patient divide to bear on the issues of the flesh that preoccupy us all. It is a worthy addition to the best that has been written about our physical selves, a meditation on our extraordinary powers of healing and the limitations that leave intact the miracle and tragedy of being.
- Author
- Jamie Weisman
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780865476691
- Genres
- medical, medicine, memoir
- Release date
- 2003
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