The Patient Experience: The Importance of Care, Communication, and Compassion in the Hospital Room

by Brian Boyle

Brian Boyle’s story about catastrophe and survival has pushed new and innovative strategies for improving patient safety and quality of care on a national level, as well as serving as a learning experience for healthcare providers of all levels

Brian tells a personal story of his fight back from near death after a horrific automobile accident. He focuses on his experience as a patient who, while in a two-month long medically induced coma, was unable to move or talk to anyone around him, yet he was able to hear, see and feel pain. Brian slowly clawed his way back to the living and found the strength to live to tell his story in his acclaimed memoir, Iron Heart .

Now Brian provides vital information from the patient’s perspective to help caregivers gain valuable insight that will help them understand new ways on how to provide care to both patients and their families. By completion of this book, readers will be able

When it comes to the patient experience, Brian has become a mouthpiece for the voiceless.

264 pages, Hardcover

First published March 3, 2015

Reviews

[Dale · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little repetitive but overall a good book.

[Jared Little · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspiring. This is a book every healthcare provider should read.

[Andrew Willis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful in understanding what the patient is going through. My perspective is through the family, and I feel that both sides of the spectrum were covered really well in this book.