Reviews
"Life-threatening Illness is like entering a foreign country. Not Just a Patient is a candid, wise and practical guidebook for those who are ill and those who love them. Ellen Fein has turned her experience as both a caregiver and patient into a blessing for all of us."
Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
Author, Kitchen Table Wisdom, My Grandfather's Blessing
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"A practical person-friendly guide to living with, and beyond, life-threatening illness."
James S. Gordon, M.D.
Founder and Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Washington, DC
Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative
Medicine Policy
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"A practical and balanced book, this will be of great help to patients and their family members who are looking for specific ways to improve their lives while they live with life-threatening illness. Even people knowledgeable about this topic will find useful tips. If you are starting treatment for cancer, if you have a life-threatening disease, if you are about to be treated at a hospital, or if lots of people are asking
what they can do to help, you’ll want to read this book."
Karen Syrjala, PhD
Director, Biobehavioral Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
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"Fein offers her readers a wealth of practical ideas and messages of reassurance. Not Just A Patient is a resource that will benefit anyone whose life is touched by life-threatening illness."
Janet D. Perloff, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Social Welfare and School of Public Health, SUNY Albany
Cancer Survivor
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"This is a wonderful book that anyone with a serious illness - and anyone caring for someone with a serious illness - will undoubtedly find helpful. It is compact, to the point, and provides well-balanced information but does not lecture. I learned a lot from the book and recommend it to patients without reservation."
Edus H. Warren, MD, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center