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Article: Battle Scars
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- Psychotherapy Networker
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Battle Scars
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By Roberta Israeloff
"Lie back," the surgeon says. My widowed mother, 78, stripped to her waist and wearing the boxy blue paper vest that opens in the front, obeys. The daughter of immigrants, she's never stopped needing to prove to doctors what a good patient she is, convinced that blind obedience just might stave off catastrophe.
"You can take a seat here," the nurse says to me, indicating the chair positioned between the door and the examining table: the caretaker's chair. All over the country, friends of mine are being ushered into similar chairs. Just as our parents once took us to doctors, filtered ...
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Article: Battle Scars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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August 1, 2004 ;
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...Battle Scars Tim Hutchinson Riverstone Publishing PO Box 270852 St. Paul, MN 55127 0972192816 $16.95 1-651-340-2089 Battle Scars is the autobiography of a man who, as a teenager, lived on the wrong side of the law, overwhelmed by his ...
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