Sandra Wendel has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is Farewell: Vital End-of-Life Questions with Candid Answers from a Leading Palliative and Hospice Physician.
Farewell: Vital End-of-Life Questions with Candid Answers from a Leading Palliative and Hospice Physician
Summary
How long am I going to live? Who will be with me when I die? Will my family forgive me? Will I have pain? These are among the 31 vital end-of-life questions patients and their families ask. This audiobook is about navigating those last days, at the bedside, and saying farewell with hope, love, and compassion.
Dr. Edward Creagan provides the reassuring answers patients and families deserve. He has dedicated his life to death. For over 40 winters at the Mayo Clinic he has been at the bedside with more than 40,000 patient encounters in the last stages of their lives on this Earth. He has held the hands of family members. Prayed with them. Listened.
This audiobook addresses:
Making end-of-life decisions when Mom or Dad or a loved one can't or won't.
Understanding what's happening in the mind of someone facing their last days, hours, minutes, and moments.
How to come to grips with our own mortality, maybe putting plans in place, living life differently after having held the hand of a loved one who is actively dying.
Ways to give hope where none seemed possible.
Death from a medical perspective, and much more.
Dr. Ed is the first Mayo Clinic doctor board certified in hospice and palliative medicine. He is also board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology (cancer). He is professor emeritus of medical oncology at the Mayo Clinic Medical School, where he held the endowed chair as the John and Roma Rouse Professor of Humanism in Medicine, and he is now Emeritus Professor of Humanism in Medicine and an Emeritus Consultant in Palliative Medicine.
©2018 Edward Creagan (P)2018 Edward Creagan
Cover to Cover
Summary
“Irreverent.” “Funny.” “Essential.” Listen to this book before you publish your book. You just wrote your first book. And there you are. Stark naked. Vulnerable. Wondering what to do next to get your masterpiece published. This is the one book you need to read and follow if you’re writing a book for the first time. Why? Because you’ve never written a book before. This is new territory. To write a successful book, you need to find and work with an editor who shares your passion for your work and your message and who will help you make your book sing. And sing a smash hit. A blockbuster of a message, clearly and carefully constructed so readers love you and your work and leave you five-star Amazon reviews only because they don’t have more stars to give. This is a toolkit for tinkering under the hood of your working manuscript so you, the author, can take your work as far as you can before an edit and production such as cover design and not dump a half-baked chocolate cake on some poor schlub of an editor to “fix”. Don’t make first-time author mistakes. No matter what you think, you do need an edit. Not the English teacher next door. You can’t self-edit either. A professional editor knows how to navigate those thorny commas and can solve your organizational questions. An editor can guide you through the murky waters of modifiers and passive sentences, correct typos, and get your book manuscript polished and on its way to production. Even if you slept through English class, never turned in book reports, and don’t know a thing about publishing the book of your dreams, your name is on the cover and you don’t want to be embarrassed. Turn your vulnerability into confidence with these insider secrets to publishing success when working with an editor. No, this is not a grammar book (ick) or a guide to self-editing (can’t be done well). This is not a dry, boring book about usage or sentence structure. Although the author, a veteran nonfiction editor, specializes in memoir, true crime, business/leadership, and self-help, her advice holds true for fiction writers as well. Get your questions answered (and more): Why do I need an editor? How do I find an editor? What do editors do? And how much do they cost? What are the levels of edit? Developmental? Line edit? Copy edit? Proofreading? How do I know what level of editing my manuscript needs? Will an editor tell me if my manuscript sucks? Why do words make a difference? Which words do I overuse? Which words should I never use? How do I know when I’m done writing? How can I work with a cover designer and audiobook engineer? Can my local bookstore help me? Do I need beta readers? BONUS: Checklist for Authors to Fine-Tune a Manuscript Before Editing Begins BUY a copy today, because you need to know these insider secrets to work with an editor on your way to publishing success. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2021 Sandra Wendel (P)2021 Sandra Wendel
How Not to Be My Patient
Summary
The facts are clear. If you want to be healthy for life: Learn to talk so your doctor will listen. Understand every diagnosis - and realize that you can survive bad news. Follow Dr. Ed’s 8 simple commandments for living well - and you’ll live long enough to cash in your 401(k). Separate hype from hope, especially with perplexing medical headlines and confusing Internet information. Get insight into what your doctor wasn’t taught in medical school. Combine the best of traditional and complementary treatments. Dr. Edward Creagan has been treating very sick patients for more than 35 years. This audiobook is not just about lifestyle choices, although these are important aspects of Dr. Creagan’s healthy living plan. It is about using your precious minutes in the exam room (the average doctor visit is about 16 minutes), forging the right kind of relationship with your care providers (because that world is changing quickly), and understanding and using the health care system - instead of having the system use (and often abuse) you. “Creagan responsibly and compassionately covers the many steps readers can take to give themselves the best odds of surviving or avoiding cancer and other diseases." (Publishers Weekly)
©2014 Edward Creagan, Sandra Wendel (P)2018 Edward Creagan, Sandra Wendel