Hospital Gowns and Other Embarrassments: A Teen Girl's Guide to Hospitals

Very helpful and insightful for the target audience (I'd personally recommend it to patients, their family members, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers who may invade other's privacy and comfort zone). Perry discusses several patients he worked with while employed at a children's hospital and discusses simple helpful lessons he learned to help make his patients more comfortable, earn trust, and reduce embarrassment to the patient--as well as discussing how the patient and family can let the caregivers know how to take care of them and respect them.

Perry has done a great service for teen girls and hospital workers in this raw and honest narrative. As a college instructor, I was impressed by the superb writing that gave readability to a difficult subject matter. As a person who has known the mortifying experience of being a self-conscious teen girl in a cold, foreign environment to be physically invaded, I was eternally grateful that someone finally took the time to address this issue. Teen girls will find comfort in Perry's words. The children he describes will find a place in your heart. Without giving anything away, I was especially touched by the loveable little Binky and his lessons. This is a must-read for all.

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Perry does a wonderful job of showing the struggle that healthcare professionals face, between giving patients real quality care and meeting the expectations of the administration. By giving teens & family vital insight about the environment inside the Hospitals today, they can understand how the system works and how their choices are a huge part of how comfortable their stay will be. The information he provides is absolutely essential and is unknown to most people, let alone a teenage girl. He explains the complex in's and out's in a way that anyone could understand, this book gives girls critical knowledge & motivates them to be involved in their care while staying in the hospital. That's why I recommend this book, not just as a survival guide to teen girls, but also to families of young girls, as well as All Healthcare Professionals. This Book sheds light on a subject not very welcomed by the healthcare community, revealing necessary truth bringing greater awareness to how serious these issues are. Perry brings this point home in saying,

"...If anything we can forget something physical (meaning pain) more easily than we can forget something psychological (such as embarrassment)...It's true that for pain there's often a pill, while there's no pill for embarrassment. But the treatment for embarrassmenta little kindness and some staff flexibilityis more effective than that for pain. It also costs nothing and has no side effects. That's why I think hospitals should treat embarrassment as seriously as they do pain."

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