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2 comments about Out of the Tempest.

1. This was a wonderful read. I finished it in 3 days and had trouble putting it down. Mae opens up with the reader on a deep personal level and showscases first-hand how having strong faith in God along with determination can get you through the toughest times and the darkest days of your life. It is such an inspirational story that has touched me in so many ways. After you read it, you realize how fortunate you really are and reminded that everyday problems we perceive to be major are in fact very minor. Mae is a truly amazing person who epitomizes perserverance and someone who I have a tremendous amount of respect for.
   
   Thank you Mae and God Bless You.



2. Hard to put down,I finished it in 2 days. It is a very inspirational and haunting story. By haunting I mean after you read it, you keep thinking about this family and the trials they withstood. Thank you Mae and may joy and peace surround you.

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1 comments about The Good Doctor Is Naked: Finding the Human Beneath My Mask.

1. What a vital message!
   "The Good Doctor is Naked" is Bob Barnes' personal story; but for me this book is so much more. For me, it speaks of what I have come to believe: I believe that if we, as a society, are to save ourselves from the terribly sad and neurotic existence we lead, we must re-define the word success.
   Here is a medical doctor who has achieved it all; society would say, "This guy made it... big!" I say that Bob Barnes has "made it...big",too. But I say it for different reasons: I say it because he has dared to be vulnerable, I say it because he has dared to be honest, I say it because he has dared to challenge his own definition of the word "success."
   Bob Barnes is saying to me that he could not find personal success until the "Real Bob Barnes" stood up. He is saying to me that his achievements stand; but that he is not the measure of his achievements. He is saying to me that he is the measure of his self knowledge, the measure of his self love, the measure of his honesty, the measure of his empathy and the measure of his service to his fellow man.
   What a wonderful definition of success.
   
   Louise Pluymen

3 comments about Pain-My Friend.

1. I met the author of this book at a writers' club where he read a few pages from his book. I decided to buy it right then because I come across many people with chronic pain. I have never seen a book about someone's personal experience with this problem before. I just finished the book. Reading it you live through his stay at the Pain Unit with him. It is very easy to read and picture the events. There are no long-winded discussions of theories. Just the facts. I think this is a worthwhile book for anyone who works with or suffers from chronic pain, especially low back pain. It shows you that there is hope.



2. Pain--My Friend, by Ed Guziejka, is a groundbreaking book, which tells the experience of a 40 year old man with disabling pain in his back and elsewhere. A doctor, in effect, tells him that he is a hopeless case. Another doctor refers him to a Pain Unit where he embarks on the arduous road to recovery. The staff there consists of experts in the techniques of physical and psychological therapies. The reader gets an insider's view of the way these treatments are carried out, along with Ed's emotional reactions to them. He works hard under the staff's direction and the results are dramatic.
   As a physician, specializing in psychiatry, I found this book clear and fascinating. It gives an inside-out view of psychosomatic medicine. It should be read by all health professionals as well as by all who suffer from chronic pain.



3. Pain--My Friend, by Ed Guziejka, is a groundbreaking book, which tells the experience of a 40 year old man with disabling pain in his back and elsewhere. A doctor, in effect, tells him that he is a hopeless case. Another doctor refers him to a Pain Unit, where he embarks on an arduous road to recovery. The staff there consists of experts in the techniques of physical and psychological therapies. The reader gets an insider's view of the way these treatments are carried out, along with Ed's emotional reactions to them. He works hard under the staff's direction, and the results are dramatic.
   As a physician, specializing in psychiatry, I found this book clear and fascinating. It gives an inside-out view of psychosomatic medicine. It should be read by all health professionals as well as by all who suffer from chronic pain.

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