March 2010
1 post
Dr. Michael Lockshin's Latest Radio Interview
On March 28, 2010, co-author Dr. Michael Lockshin spoke with Bob Salter of WFAN about Dancing at the River’s Edge, the newly passed health care reform bill, and the state of American medicine. Click here to listen to the radio interview.
August 2009
1 post
The New England Journal of Medicine 8/13/09
Dancing at the River’s Edge:
A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate Life with Chronic Illness
By Alida Brill and Michael D. Lockshin. 253 pp. Tucson, AZ, Schaffner Press, 2009. $23.95. ISBN 978-0-9801394-0-2.
The drama of chronic disease has many actors, but the single most important one — and far too often, the silent one — is the patient. Chronic illness changes the lives of patients and...
June 2009
1 post
GOT THE TIME?
Today is a perfect Los Angeles day. It is a day that is my father’s idealized Southern California. It’s warm but not hot. Blue skies. No smog. Sufficient breezes flow past my building to ripple the palm trees producing that unique sound. It is a sound I remember from childhood. In a few minutes a reporter from the Long Beach Press Telegram will arrive. She will interview me about the book. ...
March 2009
5 posts
Bonnie Hunt Show!
Alida Brill was on the Bonnie Hunt Show recently. Click here to see her interview.
A CRAZY GIRL
I was 12 or perhaps 13 the first time I heard a doctor suggest that perhaps there was something else wrong with me. — Something other than illness. — Maybe I was a Crazy Girl. It was said in different words but it was said in front of me. “You know it might all be in her head.” I was too bright not to know what this meant. My mother had old-world ways and with remedies in her...
'Tis the season to be...
Reflective, I suppose.
The Chanukah/Christmas/New Year cycle is hard for many of us and particularly sad for me. I’m far too old to believe in Santa Claus, and finally too wise to hope a package will arrive with the ultimate Magic Wand to cure my illness.
So what is left for me to revel in about my life as I light the first candle of Chanukah at sundown tonight with Christmas also knocking on...
December 2008
3 posts
The Triumphant Return of Mr. Rot
I’ve been in a rough campaign battle and I’ve lost – again. According to my personal polling results, it wasn’t even a close race. I am not going to be elected The Well-Woman with at least a four-year term guarantee.
I call my autoimmune disease Mr. Rot and he has returned. He’s right back at my side, as close as he can get to me and is he ever triumphant! He and I have been partners for so...
About the Authors
Alida Brill is a feminist social critic who has written on such diverse topics as medical and sexual privacy, the ethics surrounding the right to die, the role of gender in society, tolerance and prejudice and the conflict between the personal and the public. See her website for more.
Michael D. Lockshin, M.D. is one of the world’s leading experts in the long-term care of chronically ill people....
Press Release
Press Release: DANCING AT THE RIVER’S EDGE: A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate Life with Chronic Illness
SCHAFFNER PRESS KICKS OFF 2009 BY TAKING THE MEMOIR FORM TO NEW HEIGHTS WITH ALIDA BRILL’S AND MICHAEL D. LOCKSHIN’S PROVOCATIVE MEMOIR DANCING AT THE RIVER’S EDGE:A PATIENT AND HER DOCTOR NEGOTIATE LIFE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS
LOS ANGELES, CA- DECEMBER 10, 2008-Schaffner Press will publish...