{"product_id":"the-closest-of-strangers-a-doctor-and-his-patients-experience-the-human-side-of-healing-paperback","title":"The Closest of Strangers: A Doctor and His Patients Experience the Human Side of Healing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Judge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I looked out over the trees and the city and the cars below, all moving fast to a somewhere I knew nothing about. Life was in full motion and it felt like I was missing it. What I didn't see was the face of a man standing at the first window in the adjacent wing, staring out much like me. I didn't see him until it was too late.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn response to an encounter with that man whose face he saw at the window, Dr. James Judge made a vow, early in his career, to be a different kind of doctor than his medical training had taught him to be. He vowed not to deny his own humanity. He vowed not to shrink from his patients' unseen suffering. He vowed he would ask the \"probing and important questions, the ones that had nothing to do with an illness and everything to do with it at the same time.\" And he vowed he would \u003ci\u003elisten\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the years that followed, Dr. Judge kept a journal. In\u003ci\u003e The Closest of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Judge shares stories from that journal, stories that demonstrate the paradox of the patient-doctor relationship: that two people, essentially strangers, can somehow walk through life's most intimate moments together and, how, on that walk, they can both move toward healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in\u003ci\u003eThe Closest of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrate the love, faith, courage, and remarkable, boundless resilience of the human spirit. Through these stories, you will be witness, as was Dr. Judge, to the powerful current of grace running through their lives-and his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These are the stories of my intimate strangers,\" Dr. Judge says of the narratives recorded in this powerful volume. \"Faces that have haunted me, and, I suppose, haunt me still. People I barely knew, but in some ways came to know more deeply, maybe, than I knew myself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories Dr. Judge shares of his \"intimate strangers\" are all stories of courage and faith-in the face of fear, hopelessness, and devastating loss: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the course of a young boy's illness, a mother grows strong, a family grows close, and a community grows tender.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA woman unable to keep up the \"lacquered layers of expectations\" in her \"perfect\" world courageously faces her emptiness and learns to experience the real substance of life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo bring her baby safely to term, an unmarried teenager fights a malignant tumor and a doctor's stern advice that she abort her pregnancy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA deeply troubled man entangled in addiction finds the courage to speak honestly about himself and to call on God to help him face and overcome his demons.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA mother of a profoundly disabled child remains convinced that her little girl's life holds purpose-and so, miraculously, it does.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Suffering sometimes brings with it certain gifts,\" Dr. Judge writes. \"Qualities and strengths beyond value or measure.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Closest of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e testifies to those qualities and strengths-and to the lessons learned by a doctor who listened to his best teachers, who sometimes became his healers as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43124709294215,"sku":"9780849991189","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/eIy3c1bHr49780849991189.webp?v=1756738218","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-closest-of-strangers-a-doctor-and-his-patients-experience-the-human-side-of-healing-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}