The Secrets Doctors Don't Tell You: Post-Illness Emotions Are Good Medicine

The patient pointed at me and yelled, “What kind of lousy hospital is this? The nurse had to stick me five times to get the injection in!”

I said, “Man, you’ve got it all wrong. We offer interactive treatment, focused on the experience… Look at my old arm. She stuck me eight times and I didn’t say a word. Maybe this was her first time touching a man’s hand, so you’re a lucky guy. Maybe she likes you. Otherwise, why would she touch your hand five times and still not want to let go?”

The patient burst out laughing.

This book began with that incident. It chronicles the healing of something even harder to deal with than illness: emotions.