Warrior Patient by Temple Emmet Williams is a true story about one man's struggle to survive a series of medical problems over the space of three years. It's funny, not sad, sometimes deadpan, and often cheerful. The aim of this book is clear: educate the unsuspecting public on the dangerous and often deadly follies of the most advanced medical system that civilization has ever know. The book reads like a thriller. It is also a love story between the author and his wife of 44 years.
The book is written in the second person, in large type. The overall effect is that you feel as if the events, although unlucky, could happen to you. In many cases, perhaps some already have. This is an important book. It should be on the shelf of anyone who wants to experience their full measure of life.
Today, the patient plays tennis, walks, bikes and works out in a gym. Almost miraculously, he has recaptured "normal." There are important lessons for everyone in this book. Good doctors helped save the author. Bad doctors tried to bury him (one of whom was arrested, lost his medical license, and awaits trial).
NOTE: Warrior Patient won a Gold Medal at the Readers' Favorite Book Awards. It also received a B.R.A.G. Medallion from the Books Readers Recognition Group. It recived an international red ribbon from The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.
PREFACE The world we live in has the best doctors and the most advanced medical system that our civilization has ever known.
Yet 100,000 patients die and nine million suffer injury every year. If medical mistakes were a disease, it would be the sixth leading cause of deaths in America.
In this extraordinary age of medical miracles, patients continue to sink into the quicksand of "going to the hospital." Who has not heard about someone who checked into a facility for "normal" surgery ... leading to their death?
A cartoon makes a joke out of it. It shows a doctor in a laboratory, surrounded by white lab rats. "We don't need better medicine," he announces to his colleagues, "we need stronger lab rats."
As you read Warrior Patient you become one of the nine million who suffer injury every year. You take an extraordinary, often amusing journey into the quicksand of modern medicine. In the midst of a long list of life-threatening illnesses, you learn to laugh and you learn how to become a much stronger lab rat, a "Warrior Patient."
You take advantage of America's fabulous medical system. You are not taken advantage of by that system.
The story unfolds with humor and anecdotes that capture characters, times and places, from good doctors to bad ones, from childhood to old age, from Africa to Sweden. In the end, you fully recover. You live again. You have a life. Enjoy the trip.
