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Living Inside an Injured Brain

Over My Head—A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out. Claudia L. Osborn. 1998. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing. 256 pp., $21.95 (HB); Coping with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Diane Roberts Stoler and Barbara Albers Hill. 1998. Garden City Park, NJ: Avery Publishing Group, Inc. 284 pp., $14.95 (PB); and Acknowledged a Man. Barbara Del Buono. 1998. Watertown, CT: The Ellingsworth Press, LLC. 373 pp., $22.95 (HB).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2000

Ronald M. Ruff
Ronald M. Ruff
Affiliation:
Director of Neurorehabilitation at St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center, Associate Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, UCSF, Clinical Neurosciences, 909 Hyde Street, Suite 620, San Francisco CA 94109
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Abstract

I cannot count the times that patients have looked at me and said, “No one really understands me unless they have had a brain injury themselves!” I agree, and therefore avoid such over-used phrases as, “I understand” and “I know what you're going through” when communicating with TBI patients.

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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 6 , Issue 7 , November 2000 , pp. 826 - 827
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© 2000 The International Neuropsychological Society

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