Title: Mayday! A Physician As Patient

Author: Allan Lohaus, MD

Description: Mayday!, a medical odyssey journal, reveals the thoughts, humor, feelings and spirituality of an American physician-patient. During months of hospitalization, the author squares off against formidable foes on uncertain seas. Rising on swells of optimism and tugged down by pain, infections, operations and adverse outcomes, he drifts through waters too deep to stand in, and too dark for him to see hidden dangers. The illness ends two years later in New Zealand. This body-mind-spirit experience of dying and returning to health is both a personal and universal journey.