A bereaved widow seeks closure by accusing her departed husband's physician. A doctor refuses to see what his own symptoms are telling him. A young woman risks amputation because she cannot face the emotional root of her affliction. Sometimes, the most threatening ailments patients endure spring from their own perilous denial. In short, what patients don't tell their physician is as important as what they do. In his fifty-plus years as a physician, Hillel Halkin has encountered confounding cases in which denial wields a damning blow to the health of the patient. Telling Silences: A Doctor's...
A bereaved widow seeks closure by accusing her departed husband's physician. A doctor refuses to see what his own symptoms are telling him. A young wo...