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

Warrior Patient by Temple Emmet Williams is a true story about one man's struggle to survive a series of medical problems over the space of three years. It’s funny, not sad, sometimes deadpan, and often cheerful. The aim of this book is clear: educate the unsuspecting public on the dangerous and often deadly follies of the most advanced medical system that civilization has ever know. The book reads like a thriller. It is also a love story between the author and his wife of 44 years.

The book is written in the second person, in large type. The overall effect is that you feel as if the events, although unlucky, could happen to you. In many cases, perhaps some already have. This is an important book. It should be on the shelf of anyone who wants to experience their full measure of life.

Today, the patient plays tennis, walks, bikes and works out in a gym. Almost miraculously, he has recaptured “normal.” There are important lessons for everyone in this book. Good doctors helped save the author. Bad doctors tried to bury him (one of whom was arrested, lost his medical license, and awaits trial).

NOTE: Warrior Patient won a Gold Medal at the Readers' Favorite Book Awards. It also received a B.R.A.G. Medallion from the Books Readers Recognition Group. It recived an international red ribbon from The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.



PREFACE: The world we live in has the best doctors and the most advanced medical system that our civilization has ever known.



Yet 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.



In this extraordinary age of medical miracles, patients continue to sink into the quicksand of "going to the hospital." Who has not heard about someone who checked into a facility for "normal" surgery ... leading to their death?



A cartoon makes a joke out of it. It shows a doctor in a laboratory, surrounded by white lab rats. "We don't need better medicine," he announces to his colleagues, "we need stronger lab rats."



As you read Warrior Patient you become one of the nine million who suffer 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 and you learn how to become a much stronger lab rat, a "Warrior Patient."



You take advantage of America's fabulous medical system. You are not taken advantage of by that system.



The story unfolds with humor and anecdotes that capture characters, times and places, from good doctors to bad ones, from childhood to old age, from Africa to Sweden. In the end, you fully recover. You live again. You have a life. Enjoy the trip.

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

Warrior Patient by Temple Emmet Williams is a true story about one man's struggle to survive a series of medical problems over the space of three years. It’s funny, not sad, sometimes deadpan, and often cheerful. The aim of this book is clear: educate the unsuspecting public on the dangerous and often deadly follies of the most advanced medical system that civilization has ever know. The book reads like a thriller. It is also a love story between the author and his wife of 44 years.

The book is written in the second person, in large type. The overall effect is that you feel as if the events, although unlucky, could happen to you. In many cases, perhaps some already have. This is an important book. It should be on the shelf of anyone who wants to experience their full measure of life.

Today, the patient plays tennis, walks, bikes and works out in a gym. Almost miraculously, he has recaptured “normal.” There are important lessons for everyone in this book. Good doctors helped save the author. Bad doctors tried to bury him (one of whom was arrested, lost his medical license, and awaits trial).

NOTE: Warrior Patient won a Gold Medal at the Readers' Favorite Book Awards. It also received a B.R.A.G. Medallion from the Books Readers Recognition Group. It recived an international red ribbon from The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.



PREFACE: The world we live in has the best doctors and the most advanced medical system that our civilization has ever known.



Yet 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.



In this extraordinary age of medical miracles, patients continue to sink into the quicksand of "going to the hospital." Who has not heard about someone who checked into a facility for "normal" surgery ... leading to their death?



A cartoon makes a joke out of it. It shows a doctor in a laboratory, surrounded by white lab rats. "We don't need better medicine," he announces to his colleagues, "we need stronger lab rats."



As you read Warrior Patient you become one of the nine million who suffer 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 and you learn how to become a much stronger lab rat, a "Warrior Patient."



You take advantage of America's fabulous medical system. You are not taken advantage of by that system.



The story unfolds with humor and anecdotes that capture characters, times and places, from good doctors to bad ones, from childhood to old age, from Africa to Sweden. In the end, you fully recover. You live again. You have a life. Enjoy the trip.

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

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

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

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

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Warrior Patient by Temple Emmet Williams is a true story about one man's struggle to survive a series of medical problems over the space of three years. It’s funny, not sad, sometimes deadpan, and often cheerful. The aim of this book is clear: educate the unsuspecting public on the dangerous and often deadly follies of the most advanced medical system that civilization has ever know. The book reads like a thriller. It is also a love story between the author and his wife of 44 years.

The book is written in the second person, in large type. The overall effect is that you feel as if the events, although unlucky, could happen to you. In many cases, perhaps some already have. This is an important book. It should be on the shelf of anyone who wants to experience their full measure of life.

Today, the patient plays tennis, walks, bikes and works out in a gym. Almost miraculously, he has recaptured “normal.” There are important lessons for everyone in this book. Good doctors helped save the author. Bad doctors tried to bury him (one of whom was arrested, lost his medical license, and awaits trial).

NOTE: Warrior Patient won a Gold Medal at the Readers' Favorite Book Awards. It also received a B.R.A.G. Medallion from the Books Readers Recognition Group. It recived an international red ribbon from The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.



PREFACE: The world we live in has the best doctors and the most advanced medical system that our civilization has ever known.



Yet 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.



In this extraordinary age of medical miracles, patients continue to sink into the quicksand of "going to the hospital." Who has not heard about someone who checked into a facility for "normal" surgery ... leading to their death?



A cartoon makes a joke out of it. It shows a doctor in a laboratory, surrounded by white lab rats. "We don't need better medicine," he announces to his colleagues, "we need stronger lab rats."



As you read Warrior Patient you become one of the nine million who suffer 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 and you learn how to become a much stronger lab rat, a "Warrior Patient."



You take advantage of America's fabulous medical system. You are not taken advantage of by that system.



The story unfolds with humor and anecdotes that capture characters, times and places, from good doctors to bad ones, from childhood to old age, from Africa to Sweden. In the end, you fully recover. You live again. You have a life. Enjoy the trip.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780996892001
Publisher: Templeworks Properties, LLC
Publication date: 01/26/2016
Pages: 390
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Temple is the senior editor and the marketing machine behind the publishing house, Templeworks Properties LLC.

Educated at Yale, he spent many years as a journalist and editor (for a daily paper in New York City, an international news magazine in Africa during the 1960s, and the Readers Digest in the 1970s). He was nominated, twice, for the Pulitzer Prize.

In the mid-1980s he developed animation software which led to the company he and his wife Kerstin owned in NewYork City, the Institute for Communications Advancement (ICA), becoming a principal contractor at IBM's multimedia Laboratory in New York.

He was the first President of the US office of the largest business-to-business marketing consultancy in the world.

In the mid-1990s, Temple developed the Accelerated Sales division at the second largest residential real estate company in Boca Raton, FL. He later became the Principal Broker at Accelerated Realty Sales and the driving force behind the Real Estate Marketing Corporation of America.

Temple Williams has been a successful analyst and equity trader since the early 1970s, when he was a registered investment advisor with the SEC.

Temple and his wife Kerstin have lived and laughed in Florida since 1991.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Prologue: Book In A Few Pages
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: Learning To Count To 9½
Chapter 18: The Warrior Patient
Epilogue: A Doctor goes to Jail
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