Bibliograph

Moonlight sonata at the Mayo Clinic, Nora Gallagher

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Moonlight sonata at the Mayo Clinic, Nora Gallagher

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Moonlight sonata at the Mayo Clinic

Oclc number

853435889

Responsibility statement

Nora Gallagher

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print health, home & learning

Summary

One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam that Nora Gallagher nearly skipped, her doctor said, "Darn." Her right optic nerve was inflamed, the cause unknown, a condition that if left untreated would cause her to lose her sight. And so began her departure from ordinary life and her travels in what she calls Oz, the land of the sick. It looks like the world most of us inhabit, she tells us, except that "the furniture is slightly rearranged": her friends can't help her, her trusted doctors don't know what's wrong, and what faith she has left just won't cover it. After a year of searching for a diagnosis and treatment, she arrives at the Mayo Clinic and finds a whole town built around Oz. In the course of her journey, Gallagher encounters inhuman doctors, the modern medical system -- in which knowledge takes fifteen years to trickle down -- and the strange world that is the famous Mayo Clinic, complete with its grand piano. With unerring candor, and no sentimentality whatsoever, Gallagher describes the unexpected twists and turns of the path she took through a medical mystery and an unfathomably changing life

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