A Touch of Sleeve: Hishasi's Story
Susan Bell. Longacre PressDunedin
2007
485
£19.50
9781877361791
One of the joys of general practice is to listen to the amazing stories told by our patients. Sometimes we enjoy them, sometimes we can be quite distressed by them, sometimes we reinterpret them and feed them back in a healing way. Individuals can heal that way, we say.
However most of the time, we like to let sleeping dogs lie, and not to challenge the givens we have all grown up with. As a boy brought up in Scotland during and after World War II, I was given a sense that two nations in particular, the Germans and the Japanese, were responsible for all the real hardships that we suffered. That sense was intensified in a mining village where the local politics …