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Validate Your Pain-Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up
Run, limp, order it online- but DEFINTELY obtain this book ASAP if you are a pain survivor, work with pain patients or if a loved one suffers from chronic pain. This book is outstanding and sincere. I use it as an invaluable resource and I use it for emotional support. The approach is right-on-target and empowering. The utter contempt pain patients face on a daily basis from the medical community, indifferent (sometimes frustrated) and ignorant doctors and nurses, acquaintances, friends and family is appalling and barbaric. An Excellent Book for Patients AND Healthcare Professionals!
I have been anticipating the publication of the second edition of Validate Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up (VYP) by Allan F. Chino, Ph.D. and Corinne Dille Davis, M.D., and as soon as I saw it available [on Amazon.com!], I ordered it- several copies, as a matter of fact!I am pleased to be one of the people who wrote a review of the first edition of VYP for inclusion in the second edition: Read more

Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health Care Issues    4. Health/Fitness    5. Pain Management    6. Physical Impairments    7. Chronic pain    8. Coping with illness    9. Pain    10. Popular medicine    11. Popular psychology   

Subjects:  1. Education Of Hearing-Impaired Students    2. Handicapped    3. Language    4. Language Arts & Disciplines    5. Physical Impairments    6. Sign Language    7. Sociology    8. Sociology Of The Mentally And Physically Challenged    9. Disability: social aspects    10. Social history   

Subjects:  1. Criticism    2. Disability studies    3. Handicapped    4. Human Services    5. People with disabilities    6. Physical Impairments    7. Social Science    8. Social conditions    9. Sociology    10. Sociology of disability    11. Disability: social aspects    12. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    13. Social Science / Handicapped   

Subjects:  1. Deaf    2. Ethnic Sociology    3. General    4. Linguistic minorities    5. Multiculturalism    6. Physical Impairments    7. Psychology    8. Services For The Physically Challenged    9. Social conditions    10. Sociology    11. United States    12. Deaf--United States--Social conditions    13. Feminism    14. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Great Read!
Once I picked up this book, I couldn't put it down. Itheld my attention until the very end. I just fell in love with Tom and his determination through the book. Joan Neubauerdid a great job of telling this very inspirational story. Myone question now: "Is Tom still a bachelor?" I'd love to meet him some time. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health/Fitness    4. Physical Impairments    5. Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement    6. Specific Groups - Special Needs   

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Informative and Practical
I've had arthritis for a long time, so I was happy to find this well-rounded, informative and practical arthritis book. I learned more from this book than I have from all the others I've read - combined. It gives a good overview of all kinds of arthritis, the ways they diagnose it and treatments. It also talks about the drugs used for the disease, their pros and cons. There's also good information on supplements, exercise, body alignment, and more. I especially like the nice balance the authors struck between traditional and alternative medicine. There are a lot of new ideas in the book I hadn't heard of before - some of which worked well for my arthritis. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who has arthritis.

The good, the bad and the equivocal...all rolled into one!
I found this book to be informative and entertaining but also somewhat disturbing. There seems to be a tendency to overemphasize so-called "alternative" therapy, and the information is presented in such a way as to cajole the unwary reader into thinking that mainstream and alternative treatments are equivalent. Curiously, neither of the authors is a physician, and the book hardly mentions the existence of the "rheumatologist",i.e.,the physician who specializes in diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic diseases. I found this surprising at best, and also a bit offensive. It was clear that this is not a completely objective or balanced guide to arthritis and its management. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - General    2. Arthritis    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Diet therapy    5. Diseases - Musculoskeletal    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Physical Impairments    9. Rheumatology    10. Coping with disability    11. Health & Fitness / General    12. Popular medicine   

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Not First Choice
Although this book shares some good information and common sense, if you yourself are dealing with a hearing loss (as the book suggests), you will not find an unbiased opinion here. Stressing oralism (lipreading and listening with assistive listening devices), there is no talk of sign language whatsoever herein. If you're losing your hearing, but vow to never admit you're deaf (when the loss becomes that severe) and vow that you will stay in the "hearing world" at all costs, this is the book for you to read as you live in denial. However, if you are truly open to learning about every option offered you as a hard of hearing or deaf person, don't waste your time. That's just this deafie's opinion. :o) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1907-    2. Adjustment (Psychology)    3. Biography    4. Consumer Health    5. Deafness    6. Education    7. General    8. Health/Fitness    9. Himber, Charlotte,    10. Older deaf people    11. Physical Impairments    12. Special Education - Physically Handicapped    13. United States    14. Coping with illness    15. Disability: social aspects   

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Interesting, but...
This book was interesting in that it provided a good insight as to how a 'one-legged' person adapted after the amputation.Unfortunately, this book was in serious need of an editor, or at the very least, a copyeditor.Though the material overall is interesting and useful, you have to wade through quite a bit of rambling and repetition to get to it.The 'poems' are nothing more than restatements of the previous paragraphs in fragment form.I did like the drawings;they helped me imagine the positions and assistive devices the author used.And I very much admire the author for what he has gone through!I hate mentioning anything negative about this book, because I do appreciate that the author took the time to share his experience.I just wish he had someone edit the book for errors and conciseness.Read more

Subjects:  1. Amputation    2. Amputees    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography & Autobiography / Medical    5. Coffeen, J. A.    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health & Fitness / Physical Impairments    8. Medical    9. Phantom limb    10. Physical Impairments    11. Leg    12. Personal narratives    13. Rehabilitation   

Subjects:  1. Backache    2. Consumer Health    3. Exercise therapy    4. Health Care Issues    5. Health/Fitness    6. Physical Impairments    7. Surgery - General   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography & Autobiography / Women    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Health & Fitness / Physical Impairments    6. Religious    7. Blind    8. Blind women    9. Chronically ill    10. Faith    11. Health & Fitness    12. Macular Degeneration    13. Physical Impairments   

Subjects:  1. Deaf    2. Deafness    3. Mental health    4. Physical Impairments    5. Psychiatry (Specific Aspects)    6. Psychological aspects    7. Psychology    8. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    9. Psychotherapy    10. Psychotherapy - General    11. Audiology & otology    12. Counselling   

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Handicapped    3. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    4. Literature: Classics    5. People with disabilities    6. People with disabilities in li    7. People with disabilities in literature    8. People with disabilities in ma    9. Physical Impairments    10. Rhetoric    11. Social Science    12. Social conditions    13. Sociolinguistics    14. Disability: social aspects   

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O&M Specialist
I'm a M.Ed. of Special Education. My major was Visual Impairment plus O&M. I like recommend this book, as it is a "must have" book, if you are a teacher, parent, or any person who is concerning visualimpairment. Read more

Subjects:  1. Education / Teaching    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health/Fitness    4. Physical Impairments    5. Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare    6. Special Education - Physically Handicapped    7. Coping with disability   

Subjects:  1. Audiology & Speech Pathology    2. Deafness    3. Education    4. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    5. Family relationships    6. General    7. Health/Fitness    8. Patients    9. Physical Impairments    10. Popular works    11. Postlingual deafness    12. Presbycusis    13. Special Education - Physically Handicapped    14. Coping with disability    15. Disability: social aspects    16. Marriage, family & other relationships   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health/Fitness    4. Physical Impairments    5. Coping with disability   

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Arthritis -- information you need
I found this book at my local library and immeadiately knew I wanted to own this book. I have family and friends that suffer form arthritis and it has given me a new view on the issues in their life. I think this is a must read for people that suffer from arthritis, or are close to those who have it. Read more

Subjects:  1. Arthritis    2. Consumer Health    3. Diseases - Musculoskeletal    4. General    5. Physical Impairments    6. Self-Help   

Subjects:  1. Health & Fitness    2. Health/Fitness    3. Physical Impairments    4. Reference   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Handicapped    4. Physical Impairments    5. Social Science    6. Sociology    7. Health & Fitness / Physical Impairments   

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The Role Hope Plays in Sustaining Quality of Life
I have read this author's books before, and I genuinely like his descriptions about the medical profession.This book particularly explains the tensions that physicians face in the conflict between being frank with patients and yet not taking hope away from them, even in serious circumstances.I believe it's easy for people, when they are well, to say that they would fight an illness with no holds barred, but when reality strikes, that dedication may falter or fail.This book does not gloss over the trials of cancer and other debilitating illnesses, but helped me understand in many ways why different patients react in radically differing ways when facing a crisis of their health.As so many baby boomers are aging themselves or facing the crises of aging parents, this book can be a godsend.But it's not just for those of us who are older.It's a wonderful read by a very interesting, compelling writer. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Abridged Audio - Exercise/Health    2. Audio Adult: Books On Tape    3. Diseases - General    4. Healing    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health aspects    7. Hope    8. Motivational & Inspirational    9. Patients    10. Physical Illness (Psychiatric Aspects)    11. Physical Impairments    12. Psychology    13. Sick    14. Science / General   

Editorial Review

Imagine Charles Bukowskiwith a degree in business administration, rambling across the United States and holdingforth on business and the drinking life. Timothy Donohue is literate and intelligent, he'sfond of quoting Emerson,and his head is bursting with novel ideas about how to make the economy work better.He's also blind drunk much of the time. When lucid he recounts his misadventures inhis journal. Read more

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It's a diary
This is not a coherent, well-structured narrative. It's a first-person account of an intelligent person disabled by alcoholism. He's an individual. He doesn't represent everyone in his category. Its value is in the intimate look inside the mind of an addict and how he makes decisions. I was especially interested in the lies he tells himself to get different effects. For example, he says, to stop drinking for two days he must *decide* to stop for a month. His description of the pain that drives him to drink is vivid and heartbreaking.

Diary of a Wasted Talent
One reviewer compared this book to George Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London," a gritty look at the lives of transients in France and England in the 1930s. In truth, this book and its author bear moreresemblance to Ted Kaczynski and his anti-technology"Manifesto." A fascinating and puzzling look at a very strange life!
In this autobiography, Donohue chronicles his peregrinations across the USA while drinking himself silly.He gets a few lucky breaks, some money here and there, a little success, but he drinks it all away.In the end,the book snaps shut abruptly with no conclusion, no climax, no denouement,nothing.Just snaps shut in a very odd way.But then it is just a peekinto one man's life, the life of an alcoholic.I definitely had moresympathy for homeless people, even alcoholic homeless people, after readingthis book.The potential reader should be warned that it contains a lot ofeconomic theory that Donohue, who actually graduated from college with abusiness degree, develops.So that stuff is a bit dry and you can safelyskip over most of it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Alcohol Abuse    2. Alcoholics    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Diaries    7. Donohue, Timothy E    8. General    9. Physical Impairments    10. Social Science    11. Specific Groups - Special Needs    12. United States    13. Alcoholism    14. Biography: general    15. Current Events / Homelessness    16. Drug addiction & substance abuse    17. USA    18. c 1990 to c 2000