The Physician Within
The Physician Within is a best seller that has been changing people's lives since its first edition in 1987. While written for people with chronic diseases, this book is actually a guide to coping with any life challenge. Each chapter is a warm conversation on self-image, motivation, successful coping strategies, problem solving, spirituality and support. Questions at the end of each chapter can be used for both personal reflection and group discussion.
The Foreword was written by F. John Service, M.D., Ph.D., the principle investigator for the Mayo Clinic's DCCT (Diabetes Control and Complications Trial). Dr. Service writes: "The Physician Within elucidates in a richly anecdotal and warmly robust fashion the power innate in all of us to deal effectively with chronic disease. Since physicians often do not have the training nor the time to awaken and nurture within the patient the spirit, confidence, self-reliance, optimism and self-improvement necessary for his or her successful adaptation to chronic disease, The Physician Within provides an essential component to a comprehensive treatment program."
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"An essential component to a comprehensive treatment program."
F. John Service, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic
The Physician Within by Catherine Feste fills an important need with a very practical guide to developing motivation to achieve healthy living for those people who have to deal with the constant demands of a chronic illness or disability."
Linda Beeney, Research Psychologist,
Department of Medicine,
University of Sydney, Australia