Long Days Last Days: a down-to-earth guide for those at the bedside

by Hillel Schwartz

Book Overview

Called to the bedside of someone critically or chronically ill, what should you bring, what can you do, what must you know, what will you say? Likely you've already sat with a grandparent, parent, brother, sister, lover, or friend in a hospital or nursing home and found yourself disturbed by certain medical protocols, mystified by lab reports, frustrated by insurance forms, benumbed by pharmocracy, thinking taboo thoughts about life or loss, and yourself...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482785773
• ISBN13: 9781482785777
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"