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Pressing My Luck: A Doctor's Lottery Journey Kindle Edition

by Shirley Press MD (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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In 2001, Dr. Shirley Press was your typical, hard-working pediatric emergency room doctor...until she won 56 million dollars (17.5 million take home) in the Florida Lottery with a ticket bought in the hospital’s gift shop. This stroke of luck brought with it numerous challenges as well as self-discovery.

In her memoir, PRESSING MY LUCK, Dr. Press takes readers on a tour of her life and candidly looks back on how the lottery windfall affected it. She recalls her childhood in Camden, New Jersey growing up with parents who were Holocaust survivors, her determination to become successful, the wild 1970 summer adventure at Paul McCartney’s house and the years dedicated to practicing medicine. And despite her lottery fortune, she reveals how money didn’t shield her family from life’s adversities, such as her husband’s near fatal illness and her son’s drug addiction. With insight and candor, Dr. Press recounts her decisions, daily struggles as well as post-lottery observations on family, friends and life in general. In the end, Dr. Press can hardly believe that most of her confidence and personal growth that she thought was due to winning the Lotto could have been achieved without all the money.

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June 18, 2013
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DHQFV4E
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Re-Spin Publishing (June 18, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 18, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 586 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 277 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0989406105

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Rosalind Merritt

Outstanding, with factoids, too.

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2013

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Dr. Shirley Press, daughter of Holocaust survivors, has survived major obstacles in her life, too. But she never expected one of them would be as a multi-million dollars winner of the LOTTERY. Her memoir is poignant, full of sage advice about what she's learned from her experiences. She tells how she's handled the unexpected, surprise turns of her life that put into play its consequences, both good and not so wonderful. This is the first book I've ever read within 24 hours with over 250 pages. I literally could not put it down, staying up into wee hours to find out what happened next. Bravo to Shirley, who now has yet another talent added to her stellar resume!
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Rosalind Merritt
Miami, Florida

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Anthony

Great read! Really enjoyed!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2022

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This is a very open and honest heartfelt book!! It's so interesting reading about her experiences after winning the lottery! Also found some of her other life experiences extremely interesting as well!!

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Indoctorinated

Kind of a De-Press-ing Read

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2014

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I read this book after hearing about it from a colleague of mine who is an emergency pediatrician like the author. By most standards, this really is an atrocious book: poorly written, rambling, full of shallow and trite sentiments, an unorganized stream of consciousness failing to masquerade as something deep and meaningful. And in spite of her obvious intelligence and education, the author’s naiveté about how her life would be transformed (or not be transformed) by winning the lottery is remarkable. The irony here is that emergency physicians tend to be among the more cynical among us!

However, in spite of how bad the telling of this story is, the book still has a message worth hearing, namely that a broken soul will not be made whole by money. While some might call the author lucky (she did win the lottery, after all), she’s certainly had more than her fair share of personal and family sorrows. The parts of the story where she discusses some of her challenges in life, particularly her son’s struggles with addiction and how being the child of Holocaust survivors affected her life, were among the better parts of the book. She’s also nakedly honest about her own faults, including her gambling, her insecurity, and her desire for attention. For sure it takes some courage to admit things like that about oneself in print.

Overall, I wouldn’t recommend spending the time to read this book. There are just too many other better books out there.

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A Good Story At A Very Reasonable Price

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2013

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Pressing My Luck is one of the best books written by a lottery winner. As you might have noticed, most lottery winners do not have a college education. That's what makes this author's story different from others. The reader receives insights usually not mentioned through other media, such as a TV show.

Each page has double spaced print. This gives the reader a sense of progression. I found the author's story so fascinating that I read the entire book over the course of two days. Shirley Press structured the chapters so that the most important issue -- the lottery win -- is at the beginning of the book. The other chapters cover her early years in life and the impact that the lottery had on her later life.

Is the writing perfect? Not really. But it communicates its message well enough. Ideally, the author should have engaged the service of a professional writer to assist with editing. Then again, the book might never have gotten written, if more effort was required. The author won the lottery just before the 9/11 terrorist attack, and the book has a copyright of 2013. Obviously, a lot of time elapsed between these two events.

When all is said and done, the price of this book is very fair. There are other, most costly books on the same subject which do not offer the depth of insights as one will find in Pressing My Luck. Having read several of these books during a 30-year span, I can say that this book should be read by everyone interested in the life of a lottery winner.

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Lilac

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Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2014

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This story was not what I was anticipating. I wanted a peek into the life of someone whose financial situation was transformed so unexpectedly. However, I found this to be more just the musings of a middle aged woman yearning for attention. By the second half of the book, when she was just, yet again, going on and on about things completely unrelated to the book's supposed premise, I found myself just skimming the first line of each paragraph so that I could get to the end.

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Larry

More than meets the eye

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2013

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I might have expected this to be a fairly shallow book about how the author's life was changed by winning the lottery, an often overplayed story line these days. But I was delighted to discover that there was a combination of some really deep material on topics such as the author's life as the daughter of Holocaust survivors or her husband's serious medical problems with lighter material about her childhood and early dating years, and even a number of fun lists at the end. Bottom line, the book has something for everyone, and is well-written to boot. I greatly enjoyed reading it, found it hard to put down, and highly recommend it.

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R. Gordon

Fascinating honest self-appraisal.

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2020

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The hook is a physician who won a big lottery jackpot. To me that was the least interesting part of this book. Dr. Press was a diligent diarist and is able to recall the kind of detail that most would think precious if only they remembered!

Pediatric emergency medicine has to be both intense and gratifying. Emergency medicine as a specialty is a relatively young specialty.

Thanks to Dr. Press for this insight into her life. I did disagree with a few thing. Dr. Press thought her husband needing a liver transplant was unlucky. Well, that is incontrovertible but RECEIVING a liver is literally a gift of life. It doesn’t get much better.

I am sure most of us, if asked to make a choice between the two,would choose to have the person closest to them receive this gift of life than winning a $65 million lottery.

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alison shirley pedley

Shirley's life.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2020

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I loved this book. I hadn't heard of Dr Shirley Press until the Lottery programme . I have pre order the next book, hoping to hear of her family survival of the camps in WW2.

Sofia

couldn't connect with the Doc

Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2013

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The book read like her own personal diary. Some character traits that I just couldn't connect or empathize with. She's shy but comes across as believing she's better than most people. Really felt for what she went through with her Son though. That was tough to read.

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