Remen, Rachel Naomi - Living with Illness
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27m
ndividuals can learn to live fulfilling lives in the face of serious chronic illness. In this moving interview, Dr. Remen speaks eloquently about the loneliness and pain of illness as well as the opportunity for spiritual deepening which it affords.
Rachel Naomi Remen is author of The Human Patient, Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings: Tales of Strength, Refuge and Belonging. She is medical director and co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Center in Bolinas, California. She is also a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.
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