TERRIBLE PATIENTS GET WELL
In the book, The Gift of Pain, the authors present the three types of patients as described by Dr. Bernie Siegel. There are the 15 to 20 percent with a death wish who welcome their illnesses as ways to die. They resist their doctors’ efforts to heal them. There are also the 60 to 70 percent of patients who rely completely on their doctors to heal them. They rely on their doctors to do all the work and just tell them what to do–nothing difficult–or, better yet, just operate on what ails them. Then there are the remaining 15 to 20 percent of those who are terrible patients. They do not meekly submit but ask for second opinions, demand their rights, and question procedures. But this demanding group of terrible patients are the ones who get well and who get well quicker. From The Gift of Pain, by Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey, published by Zondervan Publishing House, 1983,…
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