In Search of My Husband's Mind [Hardcover]

Winnie Hirsch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0934793646 | ISBN-13: 978-0934793643

Following Winnie Hirsch's husband's surgery, his mind was different. Seeking answers to what happened, Winnie couldn't get anyone to listen to her concerns. Her questions were turned aside. This personal, suspenseful story of medical indifference and malfeasance shows that passivity in dealing with the medical bureaucracy is the way of fools.

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A book that is dificult to put down. It reads like a suspence novel

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Pathfinder Publishing (November 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934793646
• ISBN-13: 978-0934793643
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,648,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a true story of love, lies and medical mis-management, September 11, 1998

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This review is from: In Search of My Husband's Mind (Hardcover)

When we're sick, we need to think the doctor knows enough, and cares. But something went horribly wrong in the medical treatment of Monroe Hirsch. The change in his personality was sudden, unexplained, even denied by the health professionals who did know the reason.

This is a love story and true, told by Monroe's wife. Seeing the man who'd loved her replaced by a beligerent and distrusful stranger, she tells how she sought to find answers, and any way at all to help him.

Winnie had every reason to expect competence and honesty from doctors, having seen it at work for so long. Monroe was an eminent optometrist, Dean of the School of Optometry at the University of California at Berkeley. Winnie had worked with him in his practice and knew the demanding standards he set for himself. But professionalism is like every other form of goodness -- an ideal to build again every day. The best of us admit to falling short somehow, daily. This story reminds us that some don't admit to falling short.

Deliberate lies and false hopes make dirty wounds. The cruelest aspect of the deceit Winnie faced was that it turned her own strengths against her. In situations of alienation, fair-minded people look first to themselves. In the face of difficulty, responsible people try harder. With intelligence and courage, Winnie battled alone and lonely, often against herself, for something already lost.

There's redemption here too. Winnie did find answers, and did have some last months of better knowledge and a kind of peace before her husband died. And now her story carries a powerful message. Even in a medical crisis, we must trust our own persistent convictions. And we're entitled to stay in control.

I was moved by this book -- angered, inspired, saddened and empowered. I wish everyone, particularly every woman could read it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic, tragic story. An amazing book., February 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: In Search of My Husband's Mind (Hardcover)

If you are a little suspicious of the medical profession and if you fear the day when you have to take a loved one to a hospital please read this. Or better yet, give it to whomever might be taking you. This is not only alarming but it is a wonderful personal love story. It puts it all in perspective. If you want to read a great book that nobody seems to know about, this is a great discovery.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I find it very inspiring., February 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: In Search of My Husband's Mind (Hardcover)

I find this book very inspiring. She's a very strong woman