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Author: Letty Cottin Pogrebin
ISBN : 1610392833
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Everyone knows someone who’s sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.

Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends’ and family’s diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved; how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs; and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began talking to her fellow patients and dozens of other veterans of serious illness, seeking to discover what sick people wished their friends knew about how best to comfort, help, and even simply talk to them.

Now Pogrebin has distilled their collective stories and opinions into this wide-ranging compendium of pragmatic guidance and usable wisdom. Her advice is always infused with sensitivity, warmth, and humor. It is embedded in candid stories from her own and others’ journeys, and their sometimes imperfect interactions with well-meaning friends. How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick is an invaluable guidebook for anyone hoping to rise to the challenges of this most important and demanding passage of friendship.

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• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: PublicAffairs; 1 edition (April 9, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1610392833
• ISBN-13: 978-1610392839
• Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6 x 8.3 inches
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a woman who survived her own battle with cancer, delivers an essential guide on how to nurture, and love the sick. As soon as I noticed the title of this book, I immediately reflected back to 30 years of Nursing, working on all units, including oncology. The author shares her personal experience, along with touching stories of patients and their feedback of how they were treated, and what was missing. As I contemplate on hundreds of patients I cared for in the healthcare industry, many diagnosed with terminal illness, I remember listening to their own stories of how friendship and family interactions played a huge role in personal feelings, and recovery. The author portrays the essential importance of how to treat people that are sick, regardless of whether their condition is chronic, or terminal. Letty Cottin Pogrebin describes situations that can be awkward, misunderstood, and uncomfortable. Her main purpose of writing this book was to pass on information to others that makes a difference in the lives of those who are sick, and suffering. This book is filled with wisdom, guidance, and compassion. The author explains the things we should say, and the things we should not do. In addition, the crucial lessons highlighted by the author will benefit the sick in many ways. Letty Cottin Pogrebin offers tips for good behavior when visiting the sick, and how we should act. Most important, we must remember the feelings of the patient. The author's wise and witty lessons are valuable tools in helping to nurture the sick, and suffering. She describes what is needed, and how terror, fear and despair can only hurt more. When these challenges are met that the author discusses, it could indeed make a huge impact on the condition of the sick, and healers.