Confessions of a Professional Hospital Patient: A Humorous First Person Account of How to Survive a

For most of us, it takes little more than the mention of the phrase, "hospital stay," to set off a chain reaction of fear, anxiety and helplessness. Michael A. Weiss offers a perfect "how-to" survival guide cleverly disguised as a funny and often poignant memoir of a most amazing and inspiring battle against chronic illness and pain. Drawing from personal experience, Mr. Weiss prepares the reader for virtually every situation that a patient will encounter during a hospital stay. "Confessions of a Professional Hospital Patient," should be required reading not only for soon-to-be-patients, but for the medical professionals in whom they are about to place their trust.

I like reading books about health care and hospitals but I've never read a book about being a hospital patient so accurate and funny that I would recommend it to fellow health care professionals until now. Mr. Weiss certainly has had his share of hospital hardships but he is even-handed in describing the experiences and provides such thought-provoking insights that even the most arrogant of physicians has to pay attention! I also appreciated the unique fashion in which he handles the nurse-physician and nurse-patient relationships. I can honestly say that while reading this book I learned a great deal about being a nurse and I learned all this from a patient! That in itself made this a very interesting and entertaining book I only wish I had read it in nursing school!

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One would be hard-pressed to think of a topic less likely to make for an ENTERTAINING read than the chronicling of the strategies that an all-too-frequent hospital patient has found necessary to devise and employ in order to survive a hospital stay...actually unfortunately MANY hospital stays: nevertheless, "Confessions of a Professional Hospital Patient" was just that. Ultimately, of course, it's the quality and quantity and integrity of the information, advice and insight that author Michael Weiss provides that make this book invaluable, perhaps even a life-saver, whether you, a friend, or a loved one is on the giving or receiving end of medical treatment. He approaches a difficult subject with respect, humility, humor, compassion, a great deal of welcome (and critical) common sense, and what must be a helluva lot of painful honesty. It's all in the service of prepping a patient or patient-to-be (sooner or later aren't we all?!) both mentally and physically for every aspect of the often impersonal, anxiety-ridden hospital-going experience as well as its often just as painful aftermath. I came away from reading "Confessions" a much better informed and enlightened "consumer," and that is essential no matter what goods or service one is buying.

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This book should be a must-read for all students in medical school, families of chronically ill people and as a continuing education course for all doctors so that people truly understand the plight of someone who has to frequently endure, hospitals, insurance companies, side effects, complications, etc... The author, Michael Weiss, cleverly makes lemonade from his lemon of a situation and makes the reader wonder if doctors/hospitals looked at health care from the outside-in, they would then think twice about how they treat patients. Somehow the author takes you through his long journey with Chron's Disease in an entertaining fashion. In fact I read it on an airplane during a business trip where I wasn't expecting to be laughing so much and people were looking at me because I was cracking up way too much (for a book involving a disease about one's bowels!!!). Then, if the Chron's Disease isn't bad enough IN A VERY FUNNY MANNER he pokes fun at the system and the unnessary added ordeals chronic and sick patients have to go through --like being woken up by a nurse at 3AM to take a sleeping pill!!! There is also an extremely helpful Table of Contents/Checklist which makes the book a great reference tool and thus a great gift for a hospital patient. I highly recomment "Confessions of a Hospital Patient" to everyone.

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This book will have you laughing, cringing, maybe even crying as you easily identify with the emotions the author experienced -if you have spent much time in the hospital. It's a very unique world set inside the larger world we all live in. Entering a hospital changes many of the rules the patient is used to living by. The longer you stay, the more you learn. I have spent many days and weeks in hospitals and for many of the same reasons as discussed in this book as I too have Crohn's Disease. These stories will talk to anyone with hospital experience and will help you understand the life of a Crohn's survivor.

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