Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (926 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060763124 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Extraordinary.” (Larry King, Larry King Live)“Career journalist Cohen doesn’t flinch from probing for truth about relationships, money, fear, and death….One only hopes that, with their group presentation to a class of Harvard medical students, these five taught young medicos as much as they could teach Cohen and, through him, us.” (Booklist)“The strength of these profiles derives from Cohen’s focus on chronic illnesses that, as he notes, are not “sexy” and generally “do not resolve themselves”ese are stories dense with quotidian details.” (Washington Post)“This unusual book gives a voice to the voiceless--the chronically disabled who, in our health-conscious society, are defined by their disease.In this advocacy book, written like a personal journal, Cohen tells their stories.Strong at the Broken Places ends on a note of hope.” (Providence Journal)
He lives outside New York City with his wife, Meredith Vieira, and their three children.. Cohen's distinguished career in journalism earned him numerous awards, including three Emmys and a George Foster Peabody Award. Richard M
Cohen spent three years chronicling the lives of five diverse "citizens of sickness": Denise, who suffers from ALS; Buzz, whose Christian faith helps him deal with his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Sarah, a determined young woman with Crohn's disease; Ben, a college student with muscular dystrophy; and Larry, whose bipolar disorder is hidden within. The bestselling author of Blindsided, Richard M. In Strong at the Broken Places, Cohen shares these inspirational and revealing stories, which offer lessons for us all—–on self-determination, on courage in the face of adversity and public ignorance, on keeping hope alive.We are all strong at the broken places—stronger than we think.. Differing in age and gender, race and economic status, all five are determined to live life on their own terms
"Welcome to your future" according to Kerry Walters. I won't lie to you. This is a hard book to read. Oh, it's not because of Richard Cohen's writing. His style is as graceful, conversational, and flowing as readers of his earlier Blindsided came to expect. And it's not because the subject matter of the book--coping with chronic illness--isn't both intrinsically interesting and relevant to our own lives. In a day when medical science keeps us alive longer and longer, many of us who are now healthy are likely to be looking at chronic illness down the road. 90 million Americans already endure chronic illness.And that's . Excellent Judith G. Kaelin An eye-opening, compassionate and very honest look at the way many people with chronic illness choose to approach life in order to make it a life worth living. Not for childish, immature or me-centered people. Its message changed me, for the better. Thank you, Mr. Cohen!. The Whole Is Less Than The Sum of Its Parts buddyhead I wish I were a bigger fan of this book. I admire what Dr. Cohen did in giving a voice to those with chronic illnesses, and think he parlayed his own pain and suffering (from MS and cancer) into something healing and productive. I also applaud the courage of the individuals profiled in the book, and the tremendous dignity they brought to their respective disorders. Good intentions on the author's part, and the bravery of the book's subjects, however, weren't enough to distract me from the issues I had with SATBP.For one, Cohen made a few strange choices in his selec