Culture

Being a patient

August 29, 2008
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This is the second in a series related to my cancer treatment. The aim is to talk about the personal experience of illness in a broadly analytical way. The first posting looked at blood, and how its condition affects our mental state.

This time I am focusing on patienthood. When you have a serious illness, being a patient is a major occupation, and not just because of the time taken up by medical matters