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The Inner Wisdom of the Patient and the Need for Doctors to Listen: Beautiful Affliction: A Memoir
Beautiful Affliction by Lene Fogelberg
my rating 5 stars!
Riveting, profoundly intimate, written with a poet’s voice, the command of a fine novelist, and a “soundscape” that still resonates within, I could not put this book down.
Utterly beautiful.
And more than that.
Here is a cautionary tale of what the great Dr. Bernard Lown called the quintessential failure of modern medicine in the physician-patient relationship: “the lost art of listening”.
Fortunately for the author and her family, and fortunately for us, she navigated and survived this Kafkaesque nightmare. And we, as privileged guests, are invited to witness (and vicariously experience) her journey.
It was a sad farewell when I reached the end of this book, and I couldn’t help yearning for a twin: the story from Ander’s point of view, penned with the same exquisite writing of this talented author.
Anyone who loves finely crafted prose and a compelling story will love this book.
And all doctors should be obliged to read it for it’s core warning: Listen to the patient!
So simple, so often absent in healthcare, yet the single greatest need in healthcare today.
my rating 5 stars!Riveting, profoundly intimate, written with a poet’s voice, the command of a fine novelist, and a “soundscape” that still resonates within, I could not put this book down.
Utterly beautiful.
And more than that.
Here is a cautionary tale of what the great Dr. Bernard Lown called the quintessential failure of modern medicine in the physician-patient relationship: “the lost art of listening”.
Fortunately for the author and her family, and fortunately for us, she navigated and survived this Kafkaesque nightmare. And we, as privileged guests, are invited to witness (and vicariously experience) her journey.
It was a sad farewell when I reached the end of this book, and I couldn’t help yearning for a twin: the story from Ander’s point of view, penned with the same exquisite writing of this talented author.
Anyone who loves finely crafted prose and a compelling story will love this book.
And all doctors should be obliged to read it for it’s core warning: Listen to the patient!
So simple, so often absent in healthcare, yet the single greatest need in healthcare today.
