View From the
Bed: View from the Bedside A Wising Up
Anthology
Heather Tosteson Phyllis A. Langton Charles D. Brockett Editors
Who is the doctor or nurse who
for better, or worse, you can't forget? The patient who changed your life?
Thirty-eight contemporary writers explore with memoir, story, and poetry the
different ways we talk about, to - and through - each other at the doctor's
office, hospital, or sickbed. One surgeon celebrates his first surgical
success; another grieves the death of a patient. A nurse finds her compassion
exhausted by a suicidal patient; another keeps an unsentimental inventory of
those moments that make it all worthwhile. Patients transitioning from a state
mental hospital collaborate with clinicians to write an essay about their
experiences. A mother poignantly reviews her son's twenty-five years with
congenital heart disease. A woman with Crohn's disease ponders the nature of
her twenty-year relationship with her physician; another masters the Zen of
medical appointments in a fractured system. Nurses find themselves patients;
patients grow into therapists. This book should appeal to anyone familiar with
the view from the bed or the view from the bedside - and with our need
individually and as a society for a comprehensive view that compassionately
holds them both. 296 pp.
CONTRIBUTORS Patricia Barone - Rachel
Squires Bloom - Ann J. Brady Nancy J. Brandwein - Mary
Ann DiMola - Nina Gaby Jane Herschlag - Paul Hostovsky - Kathleen M. Kelley Patricia Kett - Robert J. Kus - Mariette Landry - Phyllis A. Langton Sara Lippmann - Zoe
Losada - Gerri Luce - Fredricka R. Maister John Manesis - Michele
Markarian - Carolyn McAuliffe Elaine Morgan - Molly
O'Dell- David W. Page - Diane
Payne Joel Peckham - Joan
Phillips - Terry Sanville - Paula Sergi Evelyn Sharenov -
Claudette Mork Sigg - Matthew B. Smith Robert P. Sticca - Maxine
Susman - Sylvie Terespolski Timothy Francis Urban -
Claudia Van Gerven Anne Webster - Gary Young
