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| Mayday! A Physician as a Patient by Allan Lohaus, M.D. | Reviewed by Alice Klein |  | Publisher: Synergy Books
http://www.bookpros.com
ISBN: 0975592297
Genre: Non-fiction
Subgenre: Biography & Autobiography/Medical
Release date: Feb, 2006
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 114
Price: $18.95
| We often take life for granted. Small inconveniences tend to balloon into large problems. We fret at long lines in grocery stores and bumper-to-bumper traffic on the highways and find fault with our spouses, our children, and our neighbors. Dr. Allan Lohaus went to the hospital for what was, to most surgeons, a relatively "simple" operation. But complications made this physician’s post-op course a 155+ day nightmare of gross proportions. The only things that stayed steadfast for Dr. Lohaus were his family and friends…and his faith.
Mayday! A Physician as a Patient is for anyone…especially those in the medical profession. Cold, clinical ambulance rides; endless waiting in a hard chair for a person too weak to do so; ICU psychosis; and thoughtless health care workers abound in this book. If anything is to be learned from this narrative, it can be read between the lines. Talk to your patients, have compassion, and treat them as you would want to be treated. Remember, what happened to Dr. Lohaus can happen to any of us! | | |
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