Allan Peterkin

  Never love a writer They’ll take you To the brink   They’ll tell your story As their own And make you Swallow ink   There’s beauty In the work But seldom in the life   Woe betide the husband Woe betide the wife  …

What is it like when someone who works in health care becomes a patient? Two new books, one written by an intensive care nurse, the other by a health policy analyst and patient advocate, provide personal narratives of going under the knife. One story goes well and the other does not. Tilda Shalof, author of A Nurse’s Story: …