The Lonely Patient
How We Experience Illness
By Michael Stein
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060847968, 240pp.)
Publication Date: January 10, 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Physician & Patient
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When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey. For many, it is as if they are traveling alone to someplace entirely new, with only faded directions back to their old lives. Often, even their loved ones can only guess at what they must be experiencing. Michael Stein, M.D., uses the stories of his own patients to consider the personal narrative of sickness. Beautifully written and keenly insightful, The Lonely Patient is a valuable book for patients and their caregivers as well as a probing inquiry into this universal experience.
Michael Stein is the author of the award-winning The Lonely Patient as well as five novels. He has been treating addiction for more than twenty years and is a professor of medicine and community health at Brown University.
“[A] big-hearted doctor.”
-Slate
“No other writer has captured the essential truths about illness with as much clarity.”
-Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“The indispensable book for patients and the patients’ families. Poetic, profound, original.”
-Peter D. Kramer, bestelling author of Listening to Prozac and Against Depression
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