Fall 2021 - Must Reads
With “snuggle up and read by the fireplace” weather quickly approaching, we’ve gathered the newest books in the Glioblastoma space to add to your reading list this Fall.
Daughter: Embracing the Difficult Journey of Caring for a Dying Parent Without Falling Apart.
Become the caregiver your parent needs without falling apart.
Are you questioning how you are going to embark on a caregiving journey without suffering a mental breakdown? You may be wondering if you are strong enough to handle the curveball the world has thrown you – taking care of your ailing parent. The great news is that you are capable, and you can do so with laser focus, mental clarity, and resilience while still meeting and surpassing your own needs.
In Daughter: Embracing the Difficult Journey of Caring for a Dying Parent without Falling Apart, author Laura Dill shares her collection of caregiving stories, teaching the simple steps you can take to care for a dying loved one.
You will learn how to:
Efficiently care for your body and mind in order to keep your parent both healthy and strong
Get organized for medical appointments and treatments, limiting the overwhelm
Create a healing environment for yourself through realistic self-care practices
Dig deep within yourself to find the strength to keep going, day after day
Use this fuel to empower action for change and ensure you create a legacy for your parent
Get your copy today and transform into the kind of caregiver your loved one deserves.
The Business of Brain Tumors: A Handbook for Building a Patient-Centric Practice with Optimal Outcomes.
How Do You Build a High Volume Medical Practice?
In 2010, the University of Miami Hospital (UMH) was a newly acquired academic hospital that had seldom performed brain tumor surgeries. Yet by 2018, UMH had become the flagship hospital for one of the busiest brain tumor programs in the country. How did such rapid growth in surgical volume occur in such a short time and in such an intensely competitive market? Using the UMH experience as a case study in rapid practice growth, we aim to highlight the techniques we used to expand our practice so that other neurosurgeons and other surgical providers can follow suit. These pearls for excelling at the business of medicine are typically neglected during medical school, residency, and fellowship, but they are critical for career success. It has almost become taboo for physicians and surgeons to openly acknowledge the business side of the equation. This glaring lack is what inspired us to write this book.
Despite our emphasis on the so-called "business side" of medicine, the strategies in this book are genuinely geared towards improving patient care. The ultimate goal is producing a high volume physician--such a surgeon develops a vast clinical experience that generally leads to more favorable outcomes.
This book will teach you how to:
Achieve superior clinical outcomes
Encourage collaborations with referring physicians
Expand your practice's catchment area
Use social media to grow your practice
Create a culture of excellence in your hospital to take better care of patients
Become a leader and influencer in your hospital
Prepare for a high-volume career during training
Master coding and medical documentation for brain tumor surgeries
Transform your program into a center of excellence
Three Brave Stars
“As with all epic battles of kingdoms past,” Queen Edith answered, “special and brave loved ones perished. But that is how we got our beloved stars.”
So begins a story that captivates young audiences with a compelling tale of bravery, sacrifice, and everlasting hope. Meet the royal family in the enchanting kingdom of Bellagio and take the journey with them as they learn that not all stories are about their happy endings. Some are about the way love lives on when the story ends.
Three Brave Stars speaks to children and families who have lost a loved one, reminding them they always remain connected to those they can no longer see. With charming characters and vivid world-building comes a fantasy adventure that validates the individual experience of grief with the comfort of the stars to commemorate the ones watching over them.
In her upcoming children’s story, Three Brave Stars, Licensed Creative Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, Board Certified Art Therapist, and National Certified Counselor, Robyn Spodek-Schindler, wants to provide a hand to hold as children cope, knowing that the stars will always shine down on them.
BOOK COMING SOON
Stargazing in Solitude
The follow-up to Suzanne Samples' Best of Year debut memoir, FRONTAL MATTER: GLUE GONE WILD, STARGAZING is a humorous look at piecing a life back together after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir
A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin - and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her - amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age 30 from the brain cancer glioblastoma. Before Strong could attempt to process her grief, another tragedy struck: the coronavirus pandemic. Following a few harrowing weeks in the virus epicenter of New York City, Strong relocated to an isolated house in the woods upstate. Here, trying to make sense of Owen’s death and the upended world, she spent much of the ensuing months writing. The result is This Will All Be Over Soon - a raw, unflinching memoir about loss, love, laughter, and hope.
Befitting the time-warped year of 2020, the diary-like approach deftly weaves together the present and the past. Strong chronicles the challenges of beginning a relationship during the pandemic and the fear when her new boyfriend contracts COVID. She describes the pain of losing her friend and longtime Saturday Night Live staff member Hal Willner to the virus. She reflects on formative events from her life, including how her high school expulsion led to her pursuing a career in theater and, years later, landing at SNL.
Yet the heart of the book is Owen. Strong offers a poignant account of her cousin’s life, both before and after his diagnosis. Inspired by his unshakable positivity and the valuable lessons he taught her, she has written a book that - as indicated by its title - serves as a moving reminder: Whatever challenges life might throw one’s way, they will be over soon. And so will life. So make sure to appreciate every day, and don’t take a second of it for granted.