Blood Lines Epub 12 17 2013

by Paul McLean

Overview

Paul McLean was living a dream, tracing his Scottish roots with his family, when a mysterious, life-threatening blood disorder attacked his daughter. A disease he had never heard of, incurable only decades before, would demand the sacrifice of a father’s safe assumptions and the new blood line of a stranger.
In the author’s lifetime, medical science has transformed the nature of hope and possibility, putting in the hands of doctors and nurses the tools of the miraculous. McLean would come to know this intimately and searingly. And discover that within the unyielding and harsh truth of mortality exists astonishment and wonder.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148905127
Publisher:	Paul McLean
Publication date:	12/20/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
File size:	723 KB

About the Author

Paul McLean was a sports writer at the L.A. Daily News, an editor at the Hollywood Reporter and Variety, and arts editor at the Boston Herald before finding his most rewarding role as a work-at-home dad. Since 2008 he has worked with the Boston nonprofit Community Voices in Medical Ethics and its affiliate Community Ethics Committee, helping the teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School better understand and appreciate the people and values of the communities they serve.
He blogs at www.medicalethicsandme.org and paulcmclean.com, and is author of the forthcoming BEST INTERESTS: Stories from the intersection of life, choice and medicine. He lives with his wife and daughter in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

“From my experience as a physician, nothing is more devastating for the patient and family than to learn that medical teams do not always agree on the best course of action -- especially tough when the disease is life-threatening.”
— TERRY B STROM, MD, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of The Transplant Institute @ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Harvard Medical School - Terry Strom, MD

“The story of a father’s courage, a daughter’s strength and a very personal triumph for medical research.”
— P. MICHAEL CONN, Ph.D, Oregon Health & Science University and co-author of The Animal Research War

Oregon Health & Science University - P. Michael Conn, Ph.D.