Healing Together

Guidance From Patients, Family and Healthcare Providers Dealing With Illness, the Last of Life and Beyond

von MD Bruce Bartlow

302 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Are you a patient struggling to reconcile illness with the life you planned? A family member aching to help but unsure how? A healthcare professional wondering whether what you gave today was truly what was needed?Healing Together offers 54 true stories drawn from 47 years of practice in critical care and nephrology-stories that reveal the shared humanity at the heart of illness. Bruce G. Bartlow, MD, invites patients, families, nurses, physicians, therapists, and caregivers into a deeper conversation about what it means to heal.Moving from the first stirrings of fear through grief, love, struggle, hope, and spiritual awakening, these stories illuminate the barriers that often separate those who suffer from those who serve. When those barriers fall, something profound emerges: connection, grace, and mutual transformation.Healing Together blends the power of narrative medicine to foster empathy by caregivers for patients, with ethical reflection, and spiritual insight. We are reminded that illness is not solely a biological event. It is a deeply human and often spiritual journey-one that calls forth courage, compassion, and community from all involved.

• Themen: Medizin Medizin / Gesundheitswesen, allgemein Medizinische Berufe Arzt-Patient-Beziehung
• ISBN: 9781662973604
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.07.2026
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Gatekeeper Press