Christopher E Pelloski MD
ASIN: B00TMIMMHA
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 268
Silver Medal Winner of the 2016 Living Now Book Awards.Bronze Medal Winner of the 2016 Global Ebook Awards.Awarded the Readers’ Favorite® 5-Star Seal (2015).There is a reason books that recount the regrets and advice of the dying strike so deep a chord: people who have nothing left to lose can tell their stories with a sincerity and unpretentiousness we crave but that is all too rare. In "Trauma, Shame, and the Power of Love,” Christopher Pelloski relates his own downfall from a prominent physician-scientist in the field of radiation oncology in a similarly candid way.Without fear of losing society’s good opinion—having lost it already—Pelloski has the freedom to be sharply honest in his observations of himself and the world around him. To the question “Why would someone with so much going for him risk, and then lose, everything, by sinking so low?” he offers a gut-wrenching ...