Michael W. Perry

Hospital Gowns and Other Embarrassments: A Teen Girl's Guide to Hospitals (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Written by someone who cared for teen girls just like you at one of the top children's hospitals in the United States, this book explains the often confusing world of hospital care. In down-to-earth terms, it helps you to understand the doctors, nurses, and other staff who will be caring for you.

* It tells you how to be a patient that everyone likes and wants to help. Win their hearts, and they'll do a bit extra to make your stay enjoyable.

* It gives you reasons to appreciate those caring for you. Hospital work is difficult and staff are under a lot of pressure. Understanding that can make your visit more pleasant. You'll know why they do what they do.

* It describes how embarrassing situations develop in hospitals and what you can do about them. The better you understand why certain things happen, the easier it will be for you manage events to your liking.

* It gives practical advice for dealing with flimsy gowns, awkward bed pans, visits to the toilet, and other possible sources of embarrassment. It recognizes that teen girls vary greatly in what they consider embarrassing, from casual to careful, and offers advice for each.

* It lists steps you can take to make sure that you stay in control of your care. There's no need to suffer in silence. You can get what you want while still being liked and respected.

* Last but not least, it explains how to deal with male staff kindly but firmly. If the behavior of a guy makes you uncomfortable, it describes in practical terms what you can do to establish a safe distance between you and him.

In short, this book can make the difference between a hospital visit that you try to forget and one that will be a memorable and enjoyable adventure, as well as a chance to make friends among those caring for you.

While this book was written with teen girls in mind, there's also a wealth of practical advice for everyone. That includes parents whose children are being hospitalized, teen boys, and older women or men. Whatever your age or situation, it'll make that hospital stay much better.

Hospital Gowns also makes a great gift for a teen girl who's in the hospital or hospital-bound.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Michael W. Perry
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781587420696
• Artikelnr.: 70038108

Autorenporträt

The writings of Michael W. Perry are many and varied. They range from an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's children's stories (Stories for Girls) to a scholarly 447-page look at the causes of World War II (Chesterton on War and Peace). He is the author of Untangling Tolkien, the only book-length, day-by-day chronology of The Lord of the Rings, and has contributed to encyclopedias on the writings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R Tolkien, as well as the many scandals of U.S. presidents (Presidential Scandals). His books have been translated into Polish (Klucz Do Tolkena) and Italian (Eugenetica e altri malanni).

Most recently, he's taking a look back at the experiences that shaped his life. Three books in the 'hospital series' look at what it was like to care for children with cancer (Nights with Leukemia) and teenagers (Hospital Gowns and Other Embarrassments), as well as a telling criticism of legally sanctioned medical mistreatment given to a teen-aged girl (Caria, The Girl Who Couldn't Say No).

That'll be followed by a series on politically driven hatred in America. The first in the series, tentatively named To Kill a Mockingbird Revisited, will describe what it was like to grow up in the South in the last days of segregation, one-generation removed and some forty miles from the town described in Harper Lee's popular novel.

Partial Bibliography

* Assistant editor and major contributor: The C. S. Lewis Readers Encyclopedia (Zondervan, 1998), winner of the 1999 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Book Award as the best biography/autobiography.

* Major contributor: Presidential Scandals (CQ Press, 1999).

* Editor of a research edition of G. K. Chesterton's Eugenics and Other Evils (2000) that was praised in by bestselling author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park), who said that: "The editor of this editor of this edition has included may quotations from eugenicists of the 1920s, who read astonishingly like toe words of contemporary prophets of doom."

* Author of Untangling Tolkien (2003), a detailed chronology of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and a must-have reference work for Tolkien fans.

* Contributor: J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia by Michael D. C. Drout. (Routledge, 2006)

* Editor of Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II. Winner of the American Chesterton Society "Outline of ...