How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

Author: Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1610392833
Category: Medical

How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

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Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.

Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved; how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs; and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began talking to her fellow patients and dozens of other veterans of serious illness, seeking to discover what sick people wished their friends knew about how best to comfort, help, and even simply talk to them.

Now Pogrebin has distilled their collective stories and opinions into this wide-ranging comp Get How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick our bestseller medical books.

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