Could You Push Me in the Toilet?: Stories from Hospitals, Nursing Homes, and Personal Home Care

The retired author draws on more than forty years of personal experience to present a warmly human and sometimes hilarious mosaic of more than 325 anecdotal stories about the world of personal hands-on health care.

The title is word-for-word a request by a particularly irritating and abrasive person who was so demanding no one wanted to interact with her. The stories include the little old man who accidentally rolled down a large double hill in his wheelchair and got tossed into a bush at th...