Bed 12

Buch | Softcover

178 Seiten

2017 | New edition
Hikari Press (Verlag)
978-0-9956478-0-0 (ISBN)

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What do you do when your lover and closest friend is about to die? Who can help you? How do you get your life back? When Alison Murdoch's husband suddenly falls into a life-threatening coma, her life changes. This book gives an astute, honest and profound insight into survival in the face of despair, heartache and the unknown.

What do you do when the most important person in your life is about to die?Who can help you?How do you keep going?When Alison Murdoch's husband catches viral encephalitis and falls into a life-threatening coma, everything changes. Bed 12 is a survival guide to the world of acute medicine, and a poignant and darkly comic account of what it's like to fight for someone's life.Over the course of a summer, machines beep and clatter, medical staff come and go, and family and friends of varying beliefs offer well-intentioned advice. For someone unfamiliar with hospitals, death and dying, the insights of Buddhism assume a greater relevance than ever before. This book is an astute, profound and uplifting insight into how to cope with despair, heartache and the unknown.'The object of my concern-or rather the entire focus of my current existence-is now lying in Bed 12."Riveting!'Dr Bob Grove, former Chief Executive, the Centre for Mental Health

Alison Murdoch has catalogued paintings for Sotheby's, established emergency nightshelters for homeless people, turned a London courthouse into a vibrant Buddhist centre, set up a catering service for refugees, and run workshops in Asia, Australasia, Central and North America, and Europe. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio including Good Morning Sunday, Women's Hour, Moral Maze and the Chris Evans Show. Her writing has been translated into four languages. She once smuggled herself into Tibet in the back of a lorry.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Intensivmedizin
ISBN-10	0-9956478-0-1 / 0995647801
ISBN-13	978-0-9956478-0-0 / 9780995647800
Zustand	Neuware