A Prescription for Love and Loss

Powerful Patient, 2009 Week 36

Host: Joyce Graff, http://powerfulpatient.org, editor@vhl.org 800-767-4845

 

Beginning August 28, 2009

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Dr. Owen Stanley Surman

Dr. Owen Stanley Surman

Dr. Owen Stanley Surman, an internationally recognized psychiatrist, shares his personal journey through his wife's illness, both as a doctor and as a husband. When a loved one dies, we lose the immediacy of a shared identity. What lies ahead? Was it all a dream? Even medical professionals, who apply scientific thinking to the tragedy of life's end, must bace the emptiness of losing a patient or a family member.