What Can I Say?

A Guide to Visiting Friends and Family Who are Ill.

$8.95

New third edition - fully redesigned and re-written.
94 pages, 15 photos - 4.5' x 6.5'
Perfect bound with bookmark

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Find the right words and actions that bring comfort to those who are suffering:

• Avoid the most common mistakes made when visiting the sick.
• Cope with the emotions of illness and healing.
• Convey the four elements of compassion used by gifted healers.
• Find resources for healing and support.
• Transform someone's darkest hour into a time of healing.
  

Authors Simon and Karen Fox share their insights on what works and what doesn't work to ease the pain, lift the spirit, and help your loved one feel supported. This best-selling guide has shown thousands of people how to play a key role in the healing of friends and family.

An ideal resource for:

Family members and friends, and health care professionals

Reviews

"A practical guide filled with the wisdom of experience, which does more than inform, it truly educates."
   - Bernie Siegel, M.D. author "Love, Medicine & Miracles" and "Help Me To Heal"

"A great resource for family and health care providers! Easy to read and uplifting at the same time."
   - Allison Mayer-Oakes, M.D., Geriatrics and Internal Medicine

"A wonderful guide to tapping the human potential for understanding and expressing compassion."
   - David Chernof, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

"What Can I Say? presents the best of healthy psychological approaches to illness – in a concise, clearly written, and practical way. This guidance and positive orientation to healing is helpful for both health care professionals and families."
   - Anthony A. Allina, M.D., Family Practice and Internal Medicine

"I can't imagine sending volunteers on to patient floors without having the opportunity to read this book. The new size makes if very easy for the volunteers to keep in their uniform pockets for reference. I would highly recommend it for all those in health care institutions."
   - Pat Doherty, Director of Volunteer Services Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Five Wishes (included with "What can I Say?")

Five Wishes is a document that helps you express how you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself. It is unique among all other living will and health agent forms because Five Wishes looks to all of a person's needs: medical, personal, emotional and spiritual. Five Wishes also encourages and structures discussing your wishes with your family and physician.