Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals is a unique collection of personal narratives that chronicle the journeys of doctors and other healthcare professionals who have been personally impacted by life-altering losses. Edited by internationally recognized practitioners of supportive care medicine and grief counseling, these are unflinching, first-person narratives of authors walking in their own shoes. The narratives reveal losses of cherished loved ones, integrity, dreams, naive views of colleagues, and the lack of institutional support for these inevitable experiences. Although the narrators are well-established leaders in their fields, serious loss brought each back to the exposed core of their most basic selves. They learned that the professional veneer was too thin to be instructive or protective. Readers might resonate with their own painful experiences and memories, and others might wonder how they will imagine their own future when these inevitable aspects of being human-loss and grief-strike them, too. In Loss and Grief, it is our hope that such openly shared feelings of isolation and suffering will humanize the loss experience, ignite prospective discussions, and illuminate opportunities for education, research and interventions to prepare us for multiple loss experiences endemic to life.

Yes, I Can Read was written for fourth graders through adults who are nonreaders, beginning readers, or struggling readers, those who speak English as well as ESL learners. The workbook was designed for learners who may be working with minimal assistance in a one-on-one, small group, or classroom setting, and its reading levels range from 0 to 5.9. What you will find in Yes, I Can Read Flexibility: Can be used as a decoding program or as a supplement to strengthen particular skills. Explicit, sequential phonics and the multi-sensory approach: Research-based, proven methods facilitate learning, inspiring confidence in students. Easy to use: Designed for student success and mastery, its predictable page format with completed examples, illustrations, phonetic pronunciations, and symbols serve as cues for students. Matching, tracing, word search and fill-in-the-blank exercises reinforce learning. Extensive reading, vocabulary, spelling, tracing, and handwriting practiced 2,000-plus words Age-appropriate format Combination teacher's manual and student workbook "This book is an abundant resource of phonetic exercises. These exercises gave my student confidence and a momentum to move smoothly along in her reading efforts because once she finished the lessons and exercises, she remembered how to spell and read the words. This book is well organized and at your fingertips to use. I am so glad to have found this resource " - Martha Wilson, Literacy Tutor "I wish I had this book when I was homeschooling my kids." - Susan Christensen