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.
A professor of medicine and community health at Brown University Medical School and the director of HIV clinics in Rhode Island and Santiago, Dominican Republic, Michael Stein, M.D., is also the author of four critically acclaimed novels. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
240 pages
