How to Heal: A Guide for Caregivers - Softcover

Kane, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581152671 ISBN 13: 9781581152678

Publisher: Allworth Press, 2003

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About the Author:

Jeff Kane is a physician and pioneering facilitator of patient support groups. After ten years of practicing medicine, he realized that while he was an expert at diagnosing and treating diseases, he had no idea how his patients experienced their sickness. He started talking to patients about their sickness and despite receiving excellent medical care, their emotionally suffering went largely unattended. Kane responded by founding the conversation groups that later became know as patient support groups and founded the support program at Sutter Cancer Center. Since then, he has taught thousands of physicians, nurses, and private caregivers how to heal severely and lethally ill patients, has written for key magazines such as Body, Mind, Spirit and Yoga Journal, and has hosted a popular health talk radio show. The Director of Psychosocial Education at Sierra Nevada Cancer Center, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Heroes In Healthcare Program in October 2000. The author lives in Nevada City, California.
 

From Booklist:

In 1976, after 10 years of medical practice, Kane realized that, though he knew a fair amount about diseases, he knew little about how patients experienced them. He left his practice and developed group discussions with patients of what it was like to be sick. He differentiates disease (what the patient has) from illness (what the patient feels). Overwhelmingly preferred for dealing with illness is communication consisting of open, understanding conversation; physical closeness; and "being there." Both attentive listening and "hearing" what is not said are vital. Diseases may be cured, he says, but it is people who are healed. Furthermore, healing is a process, not a goal. He gives many practical suggestions for enabling truly healing relationships, and he reinforces them with end-of-chapter notes. William Beatty
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About this edition

• Publisher: Allworth Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1581152671
• ISBN 13: 9781581152678
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208