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As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-Doctor
As I Live and Breathe Notes of a PatientDoctor Author:Jamie Weisman ?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 ... more »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.« less
the patient and the doctor are the same. the author has a rare defect in her immune system. this book gives good insight from both sides of the coin of having a rare medical problem.