| The Secret History of a Woman Patient |  | Author: Janet Rhys Dent
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 682,290
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 130
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1846191505
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.196994490092
EAN: 9781846191503
Publication Date: January 20, 2007
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The best kind of medical story that gives information on many levels March 2, 2008
MJA "Marco" (London)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a doctor working in narrative medicine, I think this book is one of the best reflections I know on illness. The analysis of the power relationships beween patient and medical staff is fine and sensitive and so is the writer's growing understanding of the changes that illness brings - not just for ill but also, surprisingly and wonderfully, for good. I absolutely recommend this subtle text to every student of narrative medicine. Other professionals and patients would also find enlightenment in this book.
A beautiful story with deeper meanings June 1, 2007
Enw Annyab (Swansea, South Wales)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Medical notes only tell one aspect of a patient's story. This is Janet Rhys Dent's remarkable story of the other changes that illness brings - whether we want it to or not.
At the outset the author is apprehensive. She wants to remain unchanged by her illness and stay the same person. She is sure that this is the kind of intrepid gutsiness that makes a good patient. But she finds that her ways of being - as a mother, musician, Welsh exile, and family doctor's wife etc - are coming into conflict with her new role as a patient. She begins to realise that she is changing despite herself. Maybe there are other ways of being a good patient?
There are lots of vivid accounts of the author's experiences - such as the time when her arm is paralysed as a side effect of an operation but no one, not even the medical staff, believes her. Though on this particular occasion the medical staff are slow to catch on, overall she gives a warm and balanced account of her encounters with medical professionals.
Janet has excellent powers of observation and amplifies them with references to literature, philosophy, self help gurus, and illness experts. This is a beautifully written story with deeper meanings.
Can't stop reading it.... March 11, 2007
Charlotte Henry (Edinburgh)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I was diagnosed with breast cancer over a year ago and now I'm a bit of a Breast Cancer Book Addict. This is the third BC book I've read this year. The other two were The Fight of My Life by Barbara Clark and Take Off Your Party Dress by Dina Rabinovitch. They were both interesting but it's Janet Rhys Dent's book that I find really compulsive and that I keep re-reading. It makes me think over all the dilemmas and discoveries and the good and bad things that I myself went through when I was being treated. It talks about the way your identity changes and how you have to start thinking of yourself as a patient even though at first you might be feeling A1. How do you now interrelate with your children or the doctors and nurses or your friends? Should you tell everybody about your breast cancer? Have you got to try to be positive all the time? Is the internet any use? What's it like going to a support group, like the author's Bosom Friends? I was like Janet and given a choice between mastectomy and lumpectomy and the way she describes her dithering over the decision brought back to me how difficult it is to decide. And then when you are in hospital, should you try to keep an eye on your medical treatment to make sure it's going to plan or should you leave it all to the staff and completely trust them? All these things to worry about and, like the book says, none of it appears in the medical notes. Having read this book I feel much more positive about myself because it has made me realise all I went through and that I came out the other end having coped with a lot and learned a lot. The ending was very moving and summed up the mixture of emotions that I still feel.
A compelling read March 9, 2007
Ann Marilyn Davies
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is a well-written and extremely readable book with a good balance of compelling, vivid accounts of the author's experiences and considered, well-informed analyses of the patient's position. She combines the personal and the specific with a good overview of academic writing on the subject in a work which will I'm sure strike a chord with many patients and ex-patients and should also be instructive to a range of healthcare providers.
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