Ebook {Epub PDF} As I Live and Breathe by Jamie Weisman

This memoir describes significant stages of Weisman's illness, her interaction with the physicians she consulted, and the issues she grapples with as she pursues her life as a physician, wife, and mother (she graduated from Emory University's school of medicine in and practices dermatology). As I Live and Breathe is a view of medicine from both sides of the trenches, embracing the patient's fervent desire for health and the doctor's fervent desire to grant it. It is a worthy addition to the best that has been written about our physical selves, a meditation on our extraordinary powers of healing and the limitations that leave intact /5(24).  · As I Live and Breathe, A gorgeously written primer for anyone who has ever been or ever will be a patient The book soars The San Diego Union Tribune Jamie Weisman was a patient long before she was a doctor She was born with a rare defect in her immune system that leaves her prey to a range of ailments and crises and that, because it is treatable but not curable, will keep her a p A .

Written by Jamie Weisman, a physician-patient with a rare, hard-to-diagnose illness, the reader sees all facets of a medical mystery. What was really frightening to me was the length of time it took to diagnose Weisman's condition, despite the fact that her father, a doctor, was always there, questioning, observing, yet unable to help. As I Live and Breathe. by. Jamie Weisman. · Rating details · ratings · 20 reviews. "A gorgeously written primer for anyone who has ever been (or ever will be) a patient The book soars." --"The San Diego Union-Tribune". Jamie Weisman was a patient long before she was a doctor. As I Live and Breathe This is the best book I have ever read. Dr Jamie Weisman is my Doctor and she is very dedicated to her patians. She has really done wonders for me. Everyone should read this book to see that they are not the only ones having problems Courage and a warning Jamie Weisman is an excellent writer and a brave woman.

This book, a well-written and transparent account of a patient/doctor searching for her own. After being a medical mystery and case study to both Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic for almost twenty years, Dr. Weisman diagnosed me with a very rare vascular disease and was as excited to find a diagnosis as I was. Get this from a library! As I live and breathe: notes of a patient-doctor. [Jamie Weisman] -- The memoirs of a doctor with a debilitated immune system offer her insights on health and medicine from the perspectives of both a patient and caregiver. This memoir describes significant stages of Weisman's illness, her interaction with the physicians she consulted, and the issues she grapples with as she pursues her life as a physician, wife, and mother (she graduated from Emory University's school of medicine in and practices dermatology).