Warrior Patient Heartbeats: How to Beat Deadly Diseases With Laughter, Good Doctors, Love, and Guts.
Warrior Patient Heartbeats is Edition II of an upbeat story of recovery from problems created by today's medical system, supposedly designed to prevent them. It is also a romantic love story between a husband and a wife who saves him, physically as well as mentally. The book is filled with humor, because the author knows, and shows, that laughter is the best medicine. This book contains updated information and is 392 pages long (in book format), 40 pages more than the original Warrior Patient.The author is a Marine, an ex-NYC cop, and a journalist nominated twice for a Pulitzer when he worked for The New York World-Telegram & Sun, over 50 years ago. Today, he is an award-winning author of three books. The original Warrior Patient had well over 100 positive reviews. The best one, from satirical writer Robert Eggleton, says: "This book may have saved my life."A retired physician said the book: "Should be required reading for doctors." "This book is ... a comfort, it is a love-story, it is important."-- WordsAPlenty "Humor is the best doctor you will ever know." Williams ... follows his own advice. - KirkusReviews."A great 'how-to' in overcoming diseases with laughter, good doctors, love, and guts." - Dennis Waller."It's a witty story full of unexpected humor." - Readers' Favorite "Save your life and read this book" - Patrick Middleton, author 100,000 patients die, and nine million suffer injury every year. If medical mistakes were a disease, it would be the sixth leading cause of deaths in America.As you read Warrior Patient Heartbeats, you become one of the nine million who suffers injury every year. You take an extraordinary, often amusing journey into the quicksand of modern medicine. In the midst of a long list of life-threatening illnesses, you learn to laugh as you survive."A strong 5-star rating ... read this book now, not tomorrow or the next day, but now." -- WordsAPlenty.
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Warrior Patient Heartbeats: How to Beat Deadly Diseases With Laughter, Good Doctors, Love, and Guts.
Warrior Patient Heartbeats is Edition II of an upbeat story of recovery from problems created by today's medical system, supposedly designed to prevent them. It is also a romantic love story between a husband and a wife who saves him, physically as well as mentally. The book is filled with humor, because the author knows, and shows, that laughter is the best medicine. This book contains updated information and is 392 pages long (in book format), 40 pages more than the original Warrior Patient.The author is a Marine, an ex-NYC cop, and a journalist nominated twice for a Pulitzer when he worked for The New York World-Telegram & Sun, over 50 years ago. Today, he is an award-winning author of three books. The original Warrior Patient had well over 100 positive reviews. The best one, from satirical writer Robert Eggleton, says: "This book may have saved my life."A retired physician said the book: "Should be required reading for doctors." "This book is ... a comfort, it is a love-story, it is important."-- WordsAPlenty "Humor is the best doctor you will ever know." Williams ... follows his own advice. - KirkusReviews."A great 'how-to' in overcoming diseases with laughter, good doctors, love, and guts." - Dennis Waller."It's a witty story full of unexpected humor." - Readers' Favorite "Save your life and read this book" - Patrick Middleton, author 100,000 patients die, and nine million suffer injury every year. If medical mistakes were a disease, it would be the sixth leading cause of deaths in America.As you read Warrior Patient Heartbeats, you become one of the nine million who suffers injury every year. You take an extraordinary, often amusing journey into the quicksand of modern medicine. In the midst of a long list of life-threatening illnesses, you learn to laugh as you survive."A strong 5-star rating ... read this book now, not tomorrow or the next day, but now." -- WordsAPlenty.
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Warrior Patient Heartbeats: How to Beat Deadly Diseases With Laughter, Good Doctors, Love, and Guts.

Warrior Patient Heartbeats: How to Beat Deadly Diseases With Laughter, Good Doctors, Love, and Guts.

by Temple Emmet Williams
Warrior Patient Heartbeats: How to Beat Deadly Diseases With Laughter, Good Doctors, Love, and Guts.

Warrior Patient Heartbeats: How to Beat Deadly Diseases With Laughter, Good Doctors, Love, and Guts.

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Warrior Patient Heartbeats is Edition II of an upbeat story of recovery from problems created by today's medical system, supposedly designed to prevent them. It is also a romantic love story between a husband and a wife who saves him, physically as well as mentally. The book is filled with humor, because the author knows, and shows, that laughter is the best medicine. This book contains updated information and is 392 pages long (in book format), 40 pages more than the original Warrior Patient.The author is a Marine, an ex-NYC cop, and a journalist nominated twice for a Pulitzer when he worked for The New York World-Telegram & Sun, over 50 years ago. Today, he is an award-winning author of three books. The original Warrior Patient had well over 100 positive reviews. The best one, from satirical writer Robert Eggleton, says: "This book may have saved my life."A retired physician said the book: "Should be required reading for doctors." "This book is ... a comfort, it is a love-story, it is important."-- WordsAPlenty "Humor is the best doctor you will ever know." Williams ... follows his own advice. - KirkusReviews."A great 'how-to' in overcoming diseases with laughter, good doctors, love, and guts." - Dennis Waller."It's a witty story full of unexpected humor." - Readers' Favorite "Save your life and read this book" - Patrick Middleton, author 100,000 patients die, and nine million suffer injury every year. If medical mistakes were a disease, it would be the sixth leading cause of deaths in America.As you read Warrior Patient Heartbeats, you become one of the nine million who suffers injury every year. You take an extraordinary, often amusing journey into the quicksand of modern medicine. In the midst of a long list of life-threatening illnesses, you learn to laugh as you survive."A strong 5-star rating ... read this book now, not tomorrow or the next day, but now." -- WordsAPlenty.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780996892070
Publisher: Templeworks Properties, LLC
Publication date: 04/16/2018
Pages: 390
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Temple is a journalist nominated twice for a Pulitzer, an author, a publisher, and an editor. His award-winning books include Warrior Patient, Warrior Patient Heartbeats (a new edition of the original with 40 extra pages), Wrinkled Heartbeats, and Poison Heartbeats. He writes both non-fiction and fiction with humor and the quick, sharp punch of journalistic truth.

Kerstin Ingegerd Williams has been an editor for over 20 years. She was a director of the Institute for Communications Advancement in New York City, a company which was "captured" by IBM in the mid-1980s.

Templeworks Properties designs, edits, formats, and publishes books that are fun to read, even if the subject matter gets rough at times.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Fall

Chapter 2: You Have Cancer

Chapter 3: The Catheter Wars

Chapter 4: Celebration, Florida

Chapter 5: A Growing Business

Chapter 6: “Come Home.”

Chapter 7: Hands Of Death And Destruction

Chapter 8: Celebration ReDux

Chapter 9: Emergency Fever

Chapter 10: Plug Into Dialysis

Chapter 11: Cheating Death

Chapter 12: Sergeant Rhyder

Chapter 13: Wraparound Shingles

Chapter 14: A Smiley Face Wearing A Mask

Chapter 15: The Eyes Have It

Chapter 16: The Imaginary Operation

Chapter 17: How To Count To 9½

Chapter 18: The Warrior Patient

Chapter 19: Getting Sick Again

Acknowledgments

About the Author: Temple Emmet Williams

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