When Bad Things Happen to Good People
by Harold S. Kushner
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Author: Harold S. KushnerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-24
ISBN: 1400034728
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: This book a must for any physician who deals with cancer
Summary: 5 Stars
Every physician who treats patients with malignancies is faced with the question by the patient "why me". The patient, if religious, feels abandoned or has a covert feeling of guilt or even that he is being punished by a higher force. This adds to his already present physical distress. Rabbi Kushner presents a rational arguement that the metaphysical has no relationship to our physical pain in life. He brings illness into the realm of reason and away from theological absurdities that were a carry over from Biblical mythologies.The author gives the patient and his family an understanding that medical problems are just that and are not Gods way of punishing the innocent or abandoning the good, He gives the caring physician an opportunity to talk with his patients in a rational manner free of philosophical absurdities.
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