It starts with a phone call during a doctor’s busy day working in the Emergency Room in the rural Pacific Northwest – his mother has been diagnosed with end-stage liver disease and needs a transplant to survive. Over the next few months, it becomes clear a family donor is the only solution, but who will step up to the challenge?
In the Dog Ear Publishing title Pink Iguanas and Broken Promises, author Mark Stefanelli, M.D., describes his journey dealing with medical, emotional and family issues related to donating his liver to his mother and his battle to heal. He turns to Oriental medicine, confronting both its attributes and limitations, after realizing Western medicine has lost its purpose and turned into a “high value industry.”
In this true story, which reads like a novel with its cast of characters and messages, Stefanelli tells of his struggles with the medical system and how his knowledge of it was both a blessing and a curse. The story comes full circle when the physician returns – this time as a patient – to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where he served as a Critical Care Fellow 15 years earlier.
Stefanelli is an Internal Medicine Physician who practices in rural emergency rooms in the coastal area of the Northwest. He enjoys outdoor activities with his wife and two children, but his experience has put his professional life in a different perspective.
Pink Iguanas and Broken Promises
Mark Stefanelli, M.D.
Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 978-160844-198-3 302 pages US
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