Title: Must read for patients with serious illness and their doctors
Product review: Michael Stern, M.D. has succeeded in writing a brief book that captures the isolation of someone who has been diagnosed with a serious, life threatening or terminal illness. Even more importantly, anyone who has symptoms for which there seems to be no diagnosis or relief needs to read "The Lonely Patient".It should be handed out by hospital social workers to those involved in caregiving for those afflicted. The book should also be required reading in medical schools.Dr. Stern interweaves the story of his brother-in-law stricken with a rare cancer of the sinuses with case studies of his own patients. He astutely divides his book into four parts: Betrayal, Terror, Loss and Loneliness and illustrates the doctor-patient relationship in a most enlightening manner.This is a must read in the tradition of Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland's excellent book "How We Die Reflections on Life's Final Chapter".
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