Description |
1 online resource (43 pages) |
Contents |
Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Transfusion; On a Scale of One to Ten; Dilaudid-Land; The Dark Night; The Dark Night 2; Last Rites; My Husband Cares for Me Tenderly; Twenty-Five Nights; A Little Bit of Terror; CT Scan; I Offer My Suffering; Angel Band; Afterword |
Summary |
In the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author who often writes about her interactions with patients, underwent routine one-day surgery. A surgical mishap led to a series of life-altering and life-threatening complications, resulting in two prolonged hospital stays and a lengthy recovery. During twenty-six days in the hospital, Davis experienced how suddenly a caregiver can become a care receiver and what it's like to be "on the other side of the sickbed." As a nurse, she was accustomed to suffering and to the empathy such witnessing can evoke, but as a patient she learn |
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Subject |
Davis, Cortney, 1945- -- Health
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SUBJECT |
Davis, Cortney, 1945- fast |
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Sick -- Psychology.
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Hospital patients -- Psychology.
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Sick -- Pictorial works
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Hospital patients -- Pictorial works
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Diseases in art.
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Arts medicine.
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Painting.
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Sick Role
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Paintings
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painting (image-making)
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paintings (visual works)
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Arts medicine
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Diseases in art
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Health
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Hospital patients
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Hospital patients -- Psychology
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Painting
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Sick
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Sick -- Psychology
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Genre/Form |
Pictorial works
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781631011214 |
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1631011219 |
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9781631011207 |
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1631011200 |
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