New Ordering Option.
I find sending books to my readers deeply satisfying, and now offer this service. And, if you like, I will sign your books.
Each book costs fifteen dollars--that includes postage. Simply send me a message on the contact page of which books you want with your shipping address and email address, and I will request payment via email with a debit card.
The only downside to ordering directly from me is I send by book rate, and it will take more time than if you order from Amazon by using the buttons below--if you are a Prime member, you can receive books in two days. And, for now, eBooks are only available through Amazon.
I find sending books to my readers deeply satisfying, and now offer this service. And, if you like, I will sign your books.
Each book costs fifteen dollars--that includes postage. Simply send me a message on the contact page of which books you want with your shipping address and email address, and I will request payment via email with a debit card.
The only downside to ordering directly from me is I send by book rate, and it will take more time than if you order from Amazon by using the buttons below--if you are a Prime member, you can receive books in two days. And, for now, eBooks are only available through Amazon.
Re-Creation: Laughing Buddha With A Fiddle
Several readers asked, "What happened next? " after they read Guilty by Degree. I kept responding, “The ending shows I survived, and I’m going to have more adventures. I don’t think I have anything to add.”
“No,” one reader replied, “the ending shows you in the boxer’s ring and you were down for the count, and then you got up on your feet, standing there all bloody and wobbly. Instead of being down for the count, it’s like you responded with, ‘Don’t count me out.’ So then what happened? That’s why you still have something to say in your next book.”
Available in print version, eBook will follow soon.
Forty-six years old, mother of three small children and holistically bent, Madsen successfully attends medical school.
How she reconciles her ideals of healing with her medical training, and how her family copes with it is a story that will not only give pause, but will also inform readers about the realities of medical training. With humor and depth, suitably grim and gripping, this book was written to instill hope and courage for those who despair when they enter the medical system with a holistic approach. Never give up! as Rumi says. Let goodness prevail. |
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Bonus--here is the published article mentioned in Medicine Dreams
Medical residencies are scarcely written about —“it’s just something you have to get through,” Madsen was advised when she sought help. Deciding to leave after the first year, a more tolerable program—like a country-club version of the gulag—enticed her to stay in the game. Madsen discovered holistic healing through anthroposophic medicine that she could combine with her conventional training--the home she’d been searching for since day one of medical school. In the midst of how to work with drug seekers and midnight bike commutes, she also embraced how to listen to the land and plants as part of her healing approach. She fulfills her medical dream in rural Vermont, her spirit home, |
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Physician Heal Thyself—Madsen learned to shrink fear to the size of a pebble, belly laugh, renounce her former crown of doctorhood, and to enjoy.
After the feds visited her patients’ homes, then her medical office, their farcical investigation for Medicare and Medicaid billing fraud—that to her was a billing error blown out of proportion—began. After eight months, her heart broke. After being discharged from hospital on nine medications, recovery began with watching the tides go in and out, and taking early social security and going on Medicaid. After hitting the road and living for another six months in her van named Jane, she found life after medicine with her new tribe—those living in the fringe of society. |
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Now a classic written over twenty years ago, Madsen explores the mother's experience of childbirth. "Never mind what you've been through. The baby's here, he's healthy. That's the most important thing, isn't it?" Few women planning a pregnancy or anticipating childbirth would dispute that the safe birth of a healthy child is their primary concern. Even when this happy outcome is achieved, however, the process of childbirth itself can wreak havoc on a woman's emotional and physiological well-being--especially when unforeseen medical complications change the expected course of labor and delivery.
Drawing from her own life as a professional counselor and mother of three, Madsen argues that a woman should not underestimate her own need to recover from a difficult birth experience. Without true healing, Madsen's analysis reveals, a new mother's suppressed sense of loss and pain can affect her relationships with her baby and husband, her body image, going back to work, even hopes for future pregnancies and births. Through personal stories, Madsen offers comfort and hope to new mothers who feel alone with a range of negative feelings about childbirth. For obstetricians, nurses, midwives, new mothers and mothers-to-be, this book provides moving insight and counsel on a difficult subject.
Drawing from her own life as a professional counselor and mother of three, Madsen argues that a woman should not underestimate her own need to recover from a difficult birth experience. Without true healing, Madsen's analysis reveals, a new mother's suppressed sense of loss and pain can affect her relationships with her baby and husband, her body image, going back to work, even hopes for future pregnancies and births. Through personal stories, Madsen offers comfort and hope to new mothers who feel alone with a range of negative feelings about childbirth. For obstetricians, nurses, midwives, new mothers and mothers-to-be, this book provides moving insight and counsel on a difficult subject.
I do not have access to this book to personally send you a copy--darn!