2 comments about Outrunning Your Shadow : Caring For Dying Parents.

1. If you find yourself in a position to care for a parent, then this is the book to read. It is an excellent book to begin to understand all of the emotions, mental and physical challenges that a primary caregiver experiences. Until I read this book, I thought I was all-alone with these feelings. I thank Fred Hill for making me feel that I am not alone anymore. This book is a must read for any caregiver. It is packed with inspiration to carry on!



2. If you find yourself in a position to care for a parent, then this is the book to read. It is an excellent book to begin to understand all of the emotions, mental and physical challenges that a primary caregiver experiences. Until I read this book, I thought I was all-alone with these feelings. I thank Fred Hill for making me feel that I am not alone anymore. This book is a must read for any caregiver. It is packed with inspiration to carry on!

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1 comments about Older Than My Mother: A Nurse's Life & Triumph Over Breast Cancer.

1. There were too many personal topics and photos not related to the subject of breast cancer. I did not need to see so many photos of the author's family and friends. It was easy to become confused about exactly what the main topic really was. Not enough emphasis on the emotional aspects surrounding this type of surgery.

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4 comments about By All Means, Resuscitate: A Memoir.

1. What a surprise! Self-published autobiographies are often self-aggrandizing, poorly written, trite accounts of otherwise mundane lives. Not so "By all means resuscitate". This book is a mixture of "Sundays with Morry", "Chicken Soup for the sole" and "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe". More a collection of short stories than a coherent novel, Chamovitz has succeeded in presenting relevant parts of his life in a scope that evokes laughter, tears and interest. Major events of the 20th century were played out in Chamovitz's small-town existence, like taking a black to the all-white neighborhood pool in the 60's, dealing with the suicide of an emotionally distressed teenager, and the medical-moral evolution of a patronistic Harvard-educated doctor, to an acceptance of assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Chamovitz's life has obviously been one of continual growth, and an example to all of us who merely accept our daily lives as is. A very easy and enjoyable read!



2. Every moment of leisure that I have, I have been reading this wonderful book and have finally finished it, although like every other page turner that I have read, I did not want it to end! I vote for a sequel.



3. In this fascinating memoir, Dr. David Chamovitz comes across as a Renaissance man of many passions: medicine, music (he plays a mellow cello), family, Judaism, civil rights, Israel. Rescuer of many Russian Jews and compassionate cardiologist to countless patients in the U.S. and Israel, he poignantly relates how he could not save his own beautiful, manic-depressivedaughter from suicide. The author has been frank in revealing his personality, including even a couple of "warts." But that's what makes him, as a characterin his story, so appealing. I enjoy his humor, I empathize with his anguish, and I understand his rages. I was really impressed by the spirituality of a self-proclaimed "rationalist" that comes through in his book. This is a rich and rewarding read.



4. So many times have I worked on a dying patient frantically trying to breathe life into a lifeless body. And many times have I questioned myself, "Why don't you give up?" The title of my memoir, "By All Means, Resuscitate," says, "no matter the consequences or the effort required, keep my life going with the caveat: that my intellectual capacity not be impaired." Though my life has not always been happy, it has been fascinating. Some of the high points of my story are:
   the closing of a circle beginning with the journey of my grandfather from Europe and my parents to the U.S. and my eventual "aliyah" to Israel.
   my Harvard Medical School education -- as the fourth brother in the family to be an M.D.
   my evolution from a 'double-talking physician hiding fatal cancer diagnoses from patients to a proponent of assisted suicide to the terminally ill (with a deep bow of humility to the occasional terminal prognosis that mysteriously reverses itself.)
   my courtship of my wife by playing duets, she on the violin, I, on the cello.
   my delight in my family -- two daughters (one now an M.D.) and a son (now a micro-biologist) and my anguish in not being able to save my other beautiful daughter, a manic-depressive, from suicide.
   my encouragement of -- and fear about -- my wife's decision to heal her niece by donating a kidney to her.
   my fights against anti-Semitism and segregation in my small Pennsylvania town.
   the efforts of my wife and myself to save Russian Jews.
   our adaptation to life in Israel, including my often frustrating, sometimes comic, struggles to learn Hebrew, and our lives, and those of our children and grandchildren during the Gulf War -- and beyond ...