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January 19, 2013

The journey into medical purgatory

My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney, by Julie Devaney (Goose Lane Editions, 344 pages, softcover, $22.95)

Imagine crawling to the bathroom 15 times a day with painful rectal cramping, bloody diarrhea and in searing pain from swollen joints. Then, when you make it to the hospital’s emergency room, you’re finally rolled into, wait for it… a psychiatric ward storage room.

Published in Book News