{"title":"Book Reviews: Heartsounds, before the Best Interests of the Child, Physicians' Licensure and Discipline, Rounds","authors":"G. Annas, Jonathan Brant","doi":"10.1111/j.1748-720x.1980.tb00574.x","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"There is a new literary genre: the survivor describing the last years of the life of a desperately ill spouse and his or her interactions with the medical care system. Previous members of this genre reviewed here includeJean’s Way andA Private Battle. Both of those books dealt with death by cancer; this one, like the movieAl1 That Jazz, takes us into the realm of heart disease. The story is gripping and exceptionally told by a loving wife who is a professional journalist. It is her story and that of her husband, Dr. Harold Lear. Lear suffers a heart attack","PeriodicalId":80081,"journal":{"name":"Medicolegal news","volume":"8 1","pages":"14 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1980-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1980.tb00574.x","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medicolegal news","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1980.tb00574.x","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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There is a new literary genre: the survivor describing the last years of the life of a desperately ill spouse and his or her interactions with the medical care system. Previous members of this genre reviewed here includeJean’s Way andA Private Battle. Both of those books dealt with death by cancer; this one, like the movieAl1 That Jazz, takes us into the realm of heart disease. The story is gripping and exceptionally told by a loving wife who is a professional journalist. It is her story and that of her husband, Dr. Harold Lear. Lear suffers a heart attack