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"طوق النجاة
رين فيرميولين، طبيب أعصاب هو ممارس عام متقاعد، من جيل الأطباء القديم، الذين كانوا يبذلوا قصارى جهدهم من أجل مرضاهم على مدار الساعة. أخبرني أنه كثيرًا ما كان يتم استدعاؤه للعمل أثناء عشاء عيد الميلاد المجيد—ولهذا فوائده بالتأكيد، أضاف مستدركًا بينما تلمع عيناه. كان مريضي لفترة، ولكن لم تعد هناك حاجة لخدماتي، فحولته ثانية للممارس العام المنوط بحالته. "

280 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2019

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2,455 reviews35.7k followers
December 16, 2022
The author's premise is that every medical professional has a patient that changes them forever. I recently read 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life (brilliant, deep, thoughtful) which concentrates on the patients and how they affected the author.

This book has many, many people describing the patient or medical event that changed their lives and it doesn't work anything like as well as Tom Templeton' 34 Patients. The stories are too short to get involved with most of the patients. The doctors learning humility, that it is the patient not the illness that must be paid attention to, and other mundane sentiments might have been uplifting to the medical professionals, but it is more a passing-time book for me.

The book reads as if it was put together for a publisher's brief to an editor who had a team of researchers. There is passion in some of the very short stories, but not really in the book. 3.5
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1,242 reviews3,085 followers
October 5, 2023
الصحفية الهولندية " إلين دي فيسر " قامت بتجميع عدد من القصص الواقعية التي يرويها مجموعة من الأطباء عن ذلك المريض الذي غير حياة الطبيب إلى الأبد...
هذا الكتاب ومضة مُقتبسة من نور الإنسانية في عالمنا المُعتم...حيث تلتقي بجمال المشاعر الناعمة في ظل خشونة عالم لا يعتد إلا بتحقيق الأرباح دون أن يأبه بالأرواح...
هنا تتعرف على حقيقة العلاقة التي تجمع الطبيب والمريض تحت منظومة من القواعد والقوانين لابد من تنفيذها وقد يأتي الوقت الذي يُسبح فيه ضد التيار لأن الأمر لا يتعلق بالتعامل مع تشخيص المرض وتقديم العلاج المناسب فحسب بل هناك مريض إنسان لابد من الإنصات إليه ، التعاطف معه ، والمشاركة في اتخاذ القرارات والأهم تلك اللحظات المصيرية التي تنذر بالنهاية...
الطبيب يواجه الكثير من الصعوبات والموانع التي تجعل المُهمة صعبة ...ومنها الحفاظ على المسافة المهنية بين الطبيب والمريض وإلا ستنهار حياة الطبيب الشخصية...
وتلك المنطقة الرمادية التي قد يعلق بها الطبيب حيث العلاج لم يعد يقدم سوى القليل ، عندئذٍ يصعب الفصل بين الحياة والموت...
متى ينصاع الطبيب لرغبة المريض ؟
متى ينظر لمن حول المريض من عائلة وأصدقاء ؟
أسئلة خطيرة يتوقف عليها حياة أحدهم...
ألم اقل لكم المهمة صعبة جداً...
عن تقديم الدعم النفسي للمريض ، وإن لم يكن ذلك كفيل بإنقاذه ، سيتكفل بقضاء لحظات أخيرة من التفاهم والتعاطف قبل الوداع...
هنا التقيت بمرضى السرطان المحاربين ، كبار السن الوحيدين ، مرضى آلزهايمر وعالمهم البعيد ، والأب والأم وهما ينتظرا طفلاً مُعاقاً ولن يقررا التخلي عنه بل الترحيب بقدومه دون تردد...
جميعهم غيروا من حياة أطبائهم عندما تهاوى السد المنيع لديهم والذي يتوارى وراءه المشاعر الإنسانية بعيداً عن حدود المهنية....
هنا قد تيقنت من " أن المريض يُعامل كإنسان وليس كمرض وهذا هو جوهر الطب "...
اعلم كم يكون الأمر شاقاً ومُضنياً أمام العدد الهائل من المرضى ، والشكاوى المتتابعة والمتباينة ، وضيق الوقت ، وإجراء الفحوصات اللازمة والاهتمام بالأعراض دون غض الطرف عن أي منها للتوصل إلى التشخيص الصحيح ،و إتخاذ الخطوة اللازمة لبداية العلاج ...ولكنني مازلت أؤمن بأن الإنصات للمريض وقول جملة بسيطة " بإذن الله ستكون بخير " يصنع فارقاً كبيراً...
ملحوظة : ستلتقي بعدد من القصص في هولندا يحق للطبيب تنفيذ الموت الرحيم بناء على رغبة المريض وإن خالف معتقداتنا لا يعني أن تغلق عينيك عن تأمل معاناة المريض والطبيب على حد سواء....
وأخيراً قلما نلتقي بذلك المريض الذي يغير حياتنا للأبد...❤
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2,884 reviews430 followers
October 9, 2022
Just what can I say!
There are so many brief touching stories between the covers of this book.
There are so many that stand out so touchingly to me, a lot of them hit home.

Some made me think.

And it also showed how us, yes us the patients can teach doctors the realism of one’s life and the conclusion isn’t always a medicinal one.
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4,185 reviews3,448 followers
February 24, 2021
(3.5) Ellen de Visser is a science writer for the most popular newspaper in the Netherlands, De Volkskrant. Her “That One Patient” column, which began in the summer of 2017, turns interviews with medical professionals into punchy first-person narratives. A collection of them was published in Dutch in 2019. This English translation tacks on 10 additional pieces based on conversations with English and American practitioners (including Dr. Anthony Fauci, immunologist and presidential medical advisor), four of them explicitly reflecting on COVID-19.

Many of the cases are decades old yet stuck with the doctor or nurse in question because of a vital lesson learned. Overtreatment is regretted just as much as an omission of care. Again and again, these medical professionals conclude that it’s impossible to judge someone else’s decisions or quality of life. For instance, a surgeon admits he had a hard time empathizing with his obese patients undergoing stomach reduction until he followed up with a young woman who told him about how invisible she’d felt before her surgery. Premature and disabled children bring grief or joy, not always in the expected doses. A doctor resents the work his team puts into repairing a woman who jumped from an eighth-floor window – why the heroic measures for someone who wanted to die? – until he learns she was pushed. A cancer surgeon develops breast cancer and now knows exactly what her patients go through.

Some of these stories are disturbing: being stalked by a patient with a personality disorder, a man poisoning his girlfriend, a farmer predicting the very day and time of his death. A gynaecologist changes his mind about abortion after he meets a 15-year-old who gave birth at home and left her baby outside in a plastic bag to die of exposure. Other pieces are heart-warming: A paramedic delivers a premature, breech baby right in the ambulance. Staff throw a wedding at the hospital for a dying teen (as in Dear Life by Rachel Clarke). A woman diagnosed with cancer while pregnant has chemotherapy and a healthy baby – now a teenager. There’s even a tale from a vet who crowdfunded prostheses for a lively terrier.

One unique thing about the Netherlands is that euthanasia is legal and provided by doctors upon the express request of a patient suffering from a terminal illness. It is taken for granted in these essays, yet some interviewees express their discomfort with it as an option for young patients. De Visser is careful to note that, even with the situation as it is, only 4% of deaths in the Netherlands are by euthanasia, and the majority of these are end-stage cancer cases.

As with any collection of this nature, some stories are more enticing than others, but overall I found it a surprising and moving set of reflections that is alive to ethical complexities and grapples with tough issues like disability, doctor error, loneliness, pain, and sense of purpose.

Two quotes, in particular, stood out to me, one from a nurse – “We are only ever guests in other people’s lives, and that’s how we ought to behave.” – and the other from Dr. Fauci’s piece. In 2014 he treated a doctor who had been volunteering in Sierra Leone after an Ebola outbreak but became ill with the virus and had to be evacuated. “He cited Hippocrates: ‘It is far more important to know what sort of person has the disease, rather than what sort of disease the person has.’ You treated me like a person, not a disease, he said. And that’s what medicine is all about.”
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1,608 reviews681 followers
April 22, 2022
لم يكن هذا اليوم مناسباً أبداً لمثل هذا الكتاب.

كمية من الإنسانية والألم والحزن كفيلة بجعلي مكتئبة لشهر قادم فما البال حينما أكون في الأساس مصابة بالحزن ومررت بيوم لم يكن لطيفاً على الإطلاق!

مع استيقاظي على خبر وفاة ثلاثة أشقاء (بنتان وولد) في حادث سير، ووفاة خطيب صديقة عرفتها مؤخراً وكل كلمة تقولها عنه تجعل قلوب كل من يعرفه ومن لا يعرفه تنفطر عليه.
ويأتي هذا الكتاب ليختم لي اليوم 😑

"ذلك المريض" الذي أثر في حياة طبيبه لدرجة عدم نسيانه حتى بعد مرور العديد من السنوات ومقابلته لمرضى آخرين، لكن يظل هناك أحد يُعلمنا درس لا يُنسى.

كتاب مؤلم للغاية
ولا أنصح به أبداً من يشعر ببادرة حزن حتى
فطوال القراءة وأنا أبكي -بالرغم أن هذه ليست عادتي 🙂.

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245 reviews193 followers
March 7, 2022
كتاب لطيف اوي .. فكرته ذي ماعنوانه بيقول .. مرضى غيروا من قناعات اطبائهم واثروا فيهم بشكل او اخر
على اد مالفكرة حلوة .. القصص اللي جت في الكتاب واشكال التأثير المختلفة للقصص دي في حياة الدكاترة كانت احلى
بيوجع القلب شوية بس كتاب لطيف
حاجة برضو لازم اوفيها حقها .. الترجمة الصراحة عظيمة جدا ..
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1,552 reviews127 followers
October 6, 2020
Mooie, verdrietige en bijzondere verhalen.

Touching stories about patients doctors will always remember.
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Author 1 book347 followers
August 17, 2024
اخيرااا الكتاب خلص ، مدته ٦ ساعات ع أقرألي
اول كام ساعة ماشي لطيف وبتسمع قد ايه المرضى أثروا ف حياة اطبائهم بس بعد شوية بقى too much امراض وفرهدة وعيانين
ف المجمل كويس بس كتييييير كتييييير "بصوت ميس انشراح ف فيلم الناظر" 🤣🤣🤲
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1,283 reviews594 followers
May 21, 2024
بين ابتسامات حزينة ترتسم ودموع تنهمر، تناقلني الكتاب بين طياته💔

يحتاج الأطباء والممرضون إلى نوع فريد من المشاركة الوجدانية في أثناء ممارسة مهنتهم، فهم يهتمون بأمر مرضاهم لكن يجب عليهم الاحتفاظ بمشاعرهم بعيداً، خلف حاجز يحميهم من العبء النفسي الرهيب بسبب طبيعة عملهم، ولكن هناك مرضى ينجحون في اختراق هذا الحاجز، وهم الذين يلمسون مشاعر أطبائهم بطريقة ما، ويشكلون أفكارهم وأفعالهم.

"عملنا مرهق نفسياً فنحن نشهد الكثير من المآسي، ولا نستطيع حملها في قلوبنا طوال الوقت. نضع مشاعرنا خلف سد منيع كي نظل في حالة ذهنية من الانتباه والعقلانية. تفيد هذه الإستراتيجية لبعض الوقت، ولكن عندما يحدث ما يذكرنا بحياتنا الشخصية، ينكسر هذا السد وتندفع مشاعرنا"

"لدى كل الأطباء (مقابر داخلية) للمرضى الذين يفقدونهم، إنه ثقل نحمله معنا أينما ذهبنا"
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683 reviews67 followers
May 1, 2019
In deze bundel lezen we toegankelijke en vlot geschreven verhalen uit alle hoeken van de medische zorg. Diverse specialisten uit het ziekenhuis komen aan het woord, maar ook de huisarts, de seksuoloog, maatschappelijk werkster en diverse verpleegkundigen vertellen hun verhaal.
Van sommige verhalen kreeg ik letterlijk kippenvel.

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1,403 reviews24 followers
January 2, 2020
Een interessant boek. Ik had verwacht dat ik lang over dit boek zou doen, maar de verhalen lezen erg prettig, waardoor ik het snel uit had. Helaas loopt het niet voor elke patiënt goed af. Toch zijn het bijzondere verhalen en kan ik me voorstellen dat deze patiënten dokters en ander zorgpersoneel zijn bijgebleven. Een aanrader. En een bonus: mijn versie van het boek (eboek) bevatte ook nog wat extra verhalen.
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242 reviews4 followers
August 5, 2020
Indrukwekkend boek! Ontroerende korte verhalen van mensen uit de zorg met hart voor hun patiënten. Het lerend effect van schrijnende situaties en dappere keuzes van patiënten die soms tegenstrijdig zijn aan het hart van artsen om te behandelen. Verhalen om nog eens op te herkauwen.
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1,022 reviews53 followers
February 15, 2021
This book was a very quick and interesting read. Each small chapter was written by a health care professional (often doctor), relating their experience with a very memorable patient (and/or the patient’s family), who changed the way that they practised medicine for the rest of their life.
The patients were of all ages – from pre-term babies to elderly, at the beginning and ends of their lives, and at significant changes in their lives. Some stories were of miraculous survival against all odds, some of helplessness in the face of inexorable disease progression, some of luck, some of narrowly averted disaster, of missed diagnoses, and many of resilience in the face of adversity.
Main themes of the book are that the medical professions do not know everything; that the protocols of treatment are guidelines, and should not be applied without thinking; that the patient often knows what is best for them, and that they should always be listened to; but that also sometimes the health care professional should go with their intuition.
Many of the stories are from the Netherlands, where euthanasia is legal (given certain protocols and checks). For many situations there is always another treatment that could be tried, always some scintilla of hope. But, one should always consider whether the treatment will prolong the patient’s life, or just put off their death. Will the extra moments of life gained be worth living? Only the patient knows. What is acceptable for one person, may be intolerable for another. If euthanasia is an option, how can/should the health care professional approach it? Or is it sometimes right, just to stop treatment and let nature take its course? What does the patient want/need from life? And what can be done to make a patient’s exit from the world easier to bear for the patient and for their loved ones (a last-minute wedding, sight of a new born relative …)
There are also some stories about when the healthcare professionals became patients themselves – and what they learned by being on the other side of the fence.
All of the stories are affecting, but one of the stories that touched me the most, was that of a little girl with substantial cranial and facial abnormalities, that were ‘fixed’ through multiple arduous operations, and every one telling her how beautiful she now looked. But the child could no longer recognise herself in the mirror, and people would treat her so differently, now she looked ‘acceptable’.
“Although she was precisely the same girl, people around her had become instantly friendlier and more enthusiastic. … the world also believed she was more intelligent. Katie knew it a felt deeply distressed.”

Now the plastic surgeon will not tell children that they will look better after the surgery, but that they will be able to breathe, eat, get around … more easily.
“We explain that they will look very different afterwards and ask: how do you feel about that?”

As you might expect, I did not recognise any of the health care professionals or patients – with one exception: Anthony Fauci, immunologist. His story was about treating a volunteer doctor who had contracted Ebola, while tending to patients in Sierra Leone.
“I couldn’t justify asking my staff to put themselves in danger, providing round-the-clock care for an extremely infectious patient, without doing the same thing myself.”

The patient survived, and the staff learned so much about how to treat Ebola from treating him. Once the patient had left hospital, he wrote to Dr Fauci to say how much he had looked forward to his visits and conversations, and that he felt Dr Fauci had treated him “like a person, not a disease”.
Like so many people around the world, I have seen Dr Fauci daily on the TV throughout the COVID crisis. I have always admired him, but this story just underlines how incredibly suited he is to guiding USA through these difficult times. He knows from personal experience the stresses and strains on medical staff, the necessity of learning new approaches to treatments, and the importance of seeing every patient as an individual – not a case or an experiment.
Near the end of the book are two stories relating to COVID: the most touching about the anonymity of the patients and the staff
“Their eyes are all I can remember, wide-open eyes reflecting their fear of what was to come. I saw them gasping for breath, surrounded by complete strangers dressed in spacesuits, uttering words they could not understand from behind plexiglas visors. … We could offer no more than mechanical treatments, which left me feeling extremely powerless and distanced. … We could do nothing to allay their fears or ease their loneliness. All we could do was promise to take good care of them”

I really enjoyed reading this book – both as a former medical herbalist practitioner, and as a current long-term patient – and would recommend it to anyone who has extended contact with the medical profession, but especially to those working in health care. There are lessons that everyone can learn here, not just the writers.
I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own and not influenced by either the author nor by the publisher.
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April 28, 2025
Korte, indrukwekkende verhalen over artsen die iets delen over “die ene patiënt” die hen heeft veranderd. Deze bundel bevat mooie lessen die elke medische professional in opleiding mee kan nemen in zijn of haar ontwikkeling! Verder een heel volledige bundel waarin artsen, maar ook andere (para)medici en disciplines zoals maatschappelijk werkers en psychologen aan bod komen.
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172 reviews
December 8, 2021
Erg mooi en ingrijpend boek. Iets om zeker mee te nemen in mijn coschappen straks.
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Author 2 books349 followers
March 17, 2021
Seldom do books leave you so captivated. But that’s totally given when you are reading a book on real-life experiences. Written in a simple yet engaging style, this book manages to do what it’s supposed to do – tug at your heart.
These are real life medical cases, heartwarming yet heartbreaking; all at once, because you know how each one of these stories are going to end. But the silver lining despite all the heartache is the powerful message each story leaves you with.
Courage, determination, grit, thinking on heels, optimism, all of it is in abundance and therefore, even though the mood of the book is quite melancholic, it leaves you awe-inspired. All these people (patients) in here are superpowers for they could do what humans seldom do. They managed leaving their doctors inspired with their will to survive or leave behind more than just memories. Either ways!
These are tiny tales, peeking into the lives of suffering patients, their families, and the lives of doctors who met these incredible people and could never forget them. The book is very powerful, one that leaves you with so much positivity and motivation to do something for the greater good, to go beyond your duties and do something that will change lives.
This is a little book of inspiration for all. Recommended.
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355 reviews12 followers
April 10, 2022
قصص لأطباء وممارسين صحيين عن مريض يتذكرونه لتأثيره الإيجابي على حياتهم
هذه القصص مأخوذه من عمود صحفي دوري، لذلك هي مختصرة ومتشابهة، في البداية تكون مؤثرة بالفعل ومع التقدم في القراءة يتضح التكرار تقريباً
كثيرة جداً القصص التي يختار فيها المرضى انهاء حياتهم بالموت الرحيم، المسموح به في هولندا،بدلاً من العلاج، ولوهلة توقعت ان الكتاب يروج لهذا المبدأ لأسباب اقتصادية ربما
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687 reviews25 followers
August 30, 2021
Pain, disease, hospital, treatment, medications, surgery, recovery, these words have surely made an appearance in everybody's life at some point. If the outcome of it has been positive/good, then we would surely remember the person who guided and consulted us on it aka the doctor and in case of hospitalization, the nursing staff as well. You'll surely remember a person who helped you cure of something. Well, it goes both way; the doctors and the nurses also tend to the remember particular patients for a particular set of reasons.

That One Patient by Ellen De Visser, a science journalist is a collection of stories of patients who doctors and nurses around the world couldn't forget. There are uncountable two to three paged accounts by the doctors and nurses all over the world in the book about the patients and the experiences they've had with them, the good and the bad
that have made the patient/s unforgettable to them. The accounts being brief are quite interesting and unique for they have been taken from doctors and nurses of multiple fields which makes this collection quite diverse and straight-forward. The lovely pastel cover with an appropriate image tend to invite the readers in and the lovely foreword helps us understand Ellen De Visser's point of view behind writing this book.

I'm a doctor myself and I found the book to be very intimate and absorbing, provided it's read at the pace of 2-3 accounts a day. I completed it over a course of months because I didn't want to rush through it. Each account was special and also thought provoking considering how the other side of the health care professionals was explored here indirectly. The emotions, helplessness, guilt, honesty and the feeling of going good work has been very written in a very raw manner by the doctors and nurses. Rarely this side is exhibited for the patients to consider that the health care professionals are humans too. I really enjoyed the entire book but particularly the last part about the Covid accounts make the reading relevant to the current times.

Whether you are from a medical background or not, these encounters are bound to leave you perplexed and astounded. Take out the time to read these accounts, they're certainly worth it!
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334 reviews3 followers
July 13, 2019
Een mooie bundel verhalen van artsen, verpleegkundigen en andere hulpverleners over het verschil wat die ene patiënt hen heeft gebracht. Neem de zakdoekjes er maar bij, dit zijn verhalen over het echte leven en ze raken een voor een. Als je zelf patiënt bent, zul je veel dingen herkennen. Ik vond het dan ook interessant om het eens vanuit een ander perspectief te 'horen'. De kwetsbaarheid en eindigheid van het leven is goed voelbaar in deze verhalen.
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1,446 reviews31 followers
April 13, 2023
Very touching book. Some of these stories will haunt me for a bit I think.
Told with sensitivity these are such important tales
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42 reviews
July 29, 2020
Ik heb het boek binnen een dag uitgelezen. Zowel de woorden als de houding van de artsen hebben indruk op mij gemaakt! Artsen stellen zich kwetsbaar op en reflecteren op het eigen handelen. Het doet je beseffen dat ook artsen mensen zijn en van iedere patiënt weer een beetje meer leren. Het boek biedt perfect inzicht in de bijzondere relatie die tussen arts en patiënt kan ontstaan. Daarnaast staat het bol van de wijze lessen voor mij als geneeskunde student om mee aan de slag te gaan! (4)
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1,143 reviews79 followers
July 20, 2024
Elk verhaal maakt indruk en toch kan ik het niet laten om er telkens een paar achter elkaar te lezen. Vaak gaat het over een patiënt of familie die op een andere manier reageert dan de dokter verwacht. Het is een prachtig boek over de band tussen patiënten en zorgverleners, die uiteindelijk allemaal mensen zijn.

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121 reviews8 followers
May 1, 2022
Een mooie verhalenbundel, leest erg vlot. Leuk dat er zoveel verschillende disciplines aan het woord komen in dit boek. Het ene verhaal raakt mij meer dan het andere, maar toch maakt dit boek mij ontzettend trots dat ik zo’n mooi beroep mag uitoefenen.
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497 reviews34 followers
August 26, 2021
Dit boek werd me een paar maanden geleden aangeraden door een collega, die er zelf ook wel interesse in had. Toen ik zag dat het op Storytel stond, leek het me interessant om te luisteren. Ik luister de laatste tijd graag non-fictie, en dit boek leek me perfect. Het is namelijk meer een verzameling korte verhalen dan echt een boek.

In dit boek komen verschillende artsen aan het woord, die vertellen over de patient die hen het meest is bijgebleven. Een heel interessant onderwerp, hoewel ik verder weinig met de zorg te maken heb en ook geen patient ben. Toch laat het boek goed zien hoe menselijk we allemaal zijn, of je nou een hoogopgeleide arts met veel ervaring bent, of een patient waarvan het einde nadert. Ik vond de emoties heel helder en mooi omschreven, het raakte me wel.

Het boek wordt voorgelezen door een man en een vrouw, wat ik ook prettig vond. Ik vond het vooral een fijn boek om er af en toe even bij te pakken, een paar verhalen te lezen, en dan weer weg te leggen. Echt een boek om in stukjes te lezen, maar zeker een aanrader!
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Author 3 books60 followers
September 3, 2019
Wat een prachtige verhalenbundel!
Na maanden zelf in te staan voor mantelzorgen, vroeg ik me af hoe dokters zich voelde tegenover hun patiënten. Ik vroeg me voornamelijk af of bepaalde patiënten hen bijbleven. Dit boek was dus een soort openbaring: want je, patiënten kunnen duidelijk een indruk nalaten op hun verzorgende.
Het boek is vlot geschreven en ook zeer toegankelijk. Er worden geen moeilijke dokterstermen gebruikt en bepaalde zaken worden ook gewoon toegelicht. Je krijgt een duidelijke schets van de situatie en waarom het de dokter bijbleef. Dit kan zowel gaan over privé zaken, alsook hun werk.
Ik vind dit boek zeker en vast een aanrader.
22 reviews
November 3, 2024
Korte, maar zeer indrukwekkende en emotionele verhalen, zeker een aanrader.
Gaf mooie inzichten in het "mens zijn", zowel in de rol van arts als patiënt en liet me weer even nadenken over wat ik vind van de rol van de arts en de arts-patient relatie.
383 reviews6 followers
March 9, 2025
Een indrukwekkend inkijkje in de patiënten die hun artsen hebben geraakt en door wie zij zijn gegroeid!

Ellen de Visser weet de essentie van heel diverse verhalen te vangen in de korte hoofdstukken per geïnterviewde arts. Het is een mooie bundel geworden met uiteenlopende verhalen, uitgangspunten en leerpunten. Wat mij betreft is het goed gelukt om iedere arts echt zelf aan het woord te laten. De schrijfstijl lijkt niet gekleurd door haar eigen inmenging.

Ik heb het boek geluisterd en ging echt op in de verhalen. Hierbij liep ik meermaals met tranen in mijn ogen door de wijk. De zorg is een pittig vak en het uitgangspunt dat Ellen heeft gekozen om de patiënten die hun artsen veranderd hebben voor het voetlicht te brengen, vond ik erg mooi en inspirerend.

Dat er nog maar vele patiënten hun arts iets mogen leren 🙏
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34 reviews2 followers
April 16, 2023
Mooi boek, met waardevolle lessen! Wel jammer dat de verhalen zo kort zijn, je hebt in 3 pagina’s per arts/patiënt niet echt de tijd om je te hechten aan de verteller.
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51 reviews
January 19, 2025
Mooi boek over hoe artsen vertellen over die ene patiënt die hen altijd bij is gebleven.
Het zijn korte verhaaltjes van steeds 3 pagina’s. Leuk om af en toe een paar te lezen maar omdat het geen lopend heel verhaal is merkte ik dat ik het boek soms heel lang links liet liggen. Maar wel leuk voor het slapen om af een toe wat stukjes te lezen.
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