When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey.
Beautifully written and keenly insightful, The Lonely.
Michael Stein, M.
D., uses the stories of his own patients to consider the personal narrative of sickness.
Often, even their loved ones can only guess at what they must be experiencing.
For many, it is as if they are traveling alone to someplace entirely new, with only faded directions back to their old lives.
When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey