Love Letters to Patients: Restoring Trust While Navigating the U.S. Healthcare System is an invaluable resource for addressing questions and concerns during challenging health events. It's a heartfelt collection of letters offering hope and empowerment, written by a Physician Leader & Health Equity Advocate, who's been an overlooked patient before. Love Letters to Patients: Restoring Trust While Navigating the U.S. Healthcare System will help readers become aware of how these conditions show up as symptoms in the real world, be informed of the best science-based treatment recommendations, and gain self-advocacy tips during unsettling times. Love Letters to Patients will open conversations about the American health system's layout and service delivery. Understand that there is hope for true healing and trust-building through restorative justice practices. This book will show examples of restorative justice in action and its use as a tool to support and grow healing. It will deepen your understanding of the tiers of Restorative Justice and empower you with advocacy tools for local implementation. Together, you and Dr. Ruby J. Long can redefine what good healthcare is and what good health is. Proceeds from this book will support organizations working to close healthcare gaps in marginalized communities within the United States. May each day of life bring moments of joy and empowerment. Your tears and hurts are not in vain.
In an intimate account from a patient who's dealt with chronic illness for 15 years, Love Letters to My Doctors is a candid account about health issues and patient advocacy. Author Rachel Charlton DesRosier, terming herself as a "chronic pain zebra," shares a vulnerable and true account of her experiences with physicians over the last 15 years of trying to find relief for her chronic pain. The narrative takes epistolary form, as Rachel's diagnosis, backstory, and interactions with physicians and healthcare professionals comes in the vehicle of "love letters" she wrote. While not all of them speak as kindly as a love letter might, Rachel's termed them as such because she actually sent every single one out on Valentine's Day 2024. Love Letters to My Doctors is a powerful and poignant look at patient care and advocacy from the patient's view. Rachel, who's dealt with mental illnesses, chronic pain, and the sometimes struggle of advocating for yourself in a tough medical situation. Some of the physicians included get a kind thank-you letter from Rachel while others get a firm talking to and challenge to do better. In each letter, Rachel shares how their interactions made her feel about herself and her pain. For anyone who deals with (or loves someone who has) chronic pain, chronic illness, an invisible illness, anorexia, an eating disorder, or a mental illness, Love Letters to My Doctors is a relatable book and a quick read they'll enjoy. Not only will they see themselves in it; the book also aims to encourage community building between chronic pain sufferers.
In Physician Suicide Letters-Answered, Dr. Wible exposes the pervasive and largely hidden medical culture of bullying, hazing, and abuse that claims the lives of countless medical students, doctors, and patients. Now-for the first time released to the public-here are private letters and last words from our doctors who could no longer bear the pain of an abusive medical system. What you don't know about medical training and culture can kill you. Dr. Wible takes you behind the white coat and into the mind, heart, and soul of our doctors-and provides answers.
Millions of women in the United States battle with after-effects of suffering so great they’ve developed post-traumatic stress disorder—the same suffering experienced by soldiers who’ve gone through war. Sexual and physical abuse, catastrophic accidents, abandonment, natural disasters, invasive medical procedures, and many other painful and overwhelming events can trigger symptoms they are little equipped to deal with and hard-pressed to recognize. Love Letters from the Edge provides a voice for those struggling to express this pain and reveals intimate encouragement for those in desperate need to hear God’s words of love and deliverance. This heartfelt devotional focuses on the profound laments in the book of Psalms. Each meditation begins with a letter from someone in the throes of despair and then offers a tender response to their pain from God’s perspective. Fresh, honest, and intimate, Love Letters from the Edge will reach readers who never expected to hear good news from where they are and point them toward the hope and healing of Christ.
I Am with You is an anthology written by and for amazing cancer patients everywhere. Over 40 women and men who have "walked the walk" of living with cancer ... be it their own diagnosis or that of someone they love ... share their stories to sustain, support, and give you hope. I Am With You is a book of wisdom, wit, inspiration, compassion, and love. Every story you read speaks to the power of those simple, exquisite words "I am with you."
Ingera Land is an African nation situate on the coastland of the great Atlantic Ocean running through West Africa. The story, which began in this country, depicts the true meaning of love in the typical African manner. It depicts raw and unbridled passion unleashed by the African men over their womenfolk. It depicts the ancient order of African voodoo and how it can best be applied to achieve desired results. It also depicts an African setting that is bustling with thrills, frills, intrigues, military coup and action-packed suspense. Janet Tandor, an untapped eighteen year old urban Ingeran Lady was at the centre of this epic saga. Against her wish, a complete stranger, Kolo Alayi, charmed her with African voodoo and this resulted into a compelling desire on Janet's part to submit to all whims and caprices of this stranger. It also resulted into Janet jilting Jalim Tanga, her former young and handsome heartthrob. Meantime, Jalim Tanga felt cheated and in a murderous mood, commenced a plot to get his own back at Kolo Alayi. The waiting game did not take long because one fateful day, Kolo Alayi fell into his trap and Jalim got a chance in a life time, as he raped Janet, his former heartthrob, who was in a drugged condition. The questions remain, whether Jalim would escape the wrath of his illicit carnal knowledge of Janet; whether he actually drugged Janet before he raped her and what was the outcome of the rape act? The climax to this epic saga happened in form of a successful and bloody military coup-de-tat in Ingera Land, staged by some young bloodthirsty Army Majors. This military putsch turned out to be the turning point for all the major actors in this story, namely, Janet Tandor, Kolo Alayi, Jalim Tanga.
One woman’s journey to find the lost love her grandfather left behind when he fled pre-World War II Europe, and an exploration into family identity, myth, and memory. Years after her grandfather’s death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled “Correspondence: Patients A–G.” What she found inside weren’t dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family’s prewar Vienna. One woman’s letters stood out: those from Valy—Valerie Scheftel. Her grandfather’s lover who had remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria. Valy’s name wasn’t unknown to her—Wildman had once asked her grandmother about a dark-haired young woman whose images she found in an old photo album. “She was your grandfather’s true love,” her grandmother said at the time, and refused any other questions. But now, with the help of the letters, Wildman started to piece together Valy’s story. They revealed a woman desperate to escape and clinging to the memory of a love that defined her years of freedom. Obsessed with Valy’s story, Wildman began a quest that lasted years and spanned continents. She discovered, to her shock, an entire world of other people searching for the same woman. On in the course of discovering Valy’s ultimate fate, she was forced to reexamine the story of her grandfather’s triumphant escape and how this history fit within her own life and in the process, she rescues a life seemingly lost to history.
We all need love in our lives. Without it, we wouldn't experience happiness, dedication, or determination. We wouldn’t be selfless or kind. Love isn’t just a word, but a feeling, an action … and it’s pure. In this new book titled Letters of Love, 12 inspiring and award-winning authors courageously write their own letters of love. They express the love of themselves to their family, to God, to the world, to those who have passed, and to the people who have shown them, love. Share the authors’ love as they take us on a journey to show the people in their lives and yours what is possible and how much they care. Letters of Love might even encourage you to love beyond measure, show kindness and hope, and be the light in the dark that so many seek. Authors Melissa Desveaux Melysa Aldiano Naomi Beverly Willema Girard Libby Monica Sarah Pridham Rebekah Samuel Veronica Sanchez Kerri-Ann Sheppard Abigail Sinclaire Nor Suhir David Vine Reviews “I absolutely love Veronica’s letter. I think it is exactly what we need, especially in times like these. It makes you realize what are the important things in life, how to cherish them and appreciate them. The secret is in love and appreciation.” - Anna Yaramboykova CEO Kicks Academy Professional Development LTD- London, UK *** "Rebekah’s letter of love touched my heart like no other. Not just because she speaks from a place of deep understanding but because she so directly speaks to MY heart in her words. It brings what the world believes love to be into the light and shares who love is." - Carole Jean Whittington Mind Your Autistic Brain with Social Autie *** "Sarah's letter is moving and inspirational. After going through such unimaginable loss, it is a testament to her strength that she continues to create a lasting legacy for Jasper. Sarah's letter offers a different perspective on grief and how we change after a person we love is gone." - Rhiannon Koch "A meaningful, heartwarming letter written to Melissa's sons. It is so raw, loving & thoughtful, I shed tears in my eyes. Just beautiful.” *** “A beautiful testimony from a loving son to his beloved mother. Such loving words were written for his mum, any mother would be very proud.” - Martina Vassallo *** “When reading this beautiful letter, my heart filled with so much love. It shows how much love a mother has for their child. What an amazing and special letter to this writer’s sons. Something they will cherish forever. A beautiful read.” - Rebecca Riggio *** “This is so relatable! It’s as if Rebekah’s letter was written for me and for you too! You can tell it’s written from the heart with love and meaning. It is such a gift, written with a powerful empowering message. I sat here and cried reading it, it’s amazing and I’d recommend it to anyone because I love it so much!” - Arjaye, Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits *** "This letter is a deep and compassionate expression of the different types of love and challenges of life. It addresses different readers with memories of joy, sorrow, and redemption!" - Sandra Bisson - Miss France 2002 *** An inspiring story for entrepreneurs, as well as anyone recovering from a stroke or a sudden diagnosed debilitating disease - - Nieves M. Pinero, Entrepreneur, Florida, USA, Ladies Rock Worldwide, Crystals and Minerals
