Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor

By Peter A. Selwyn

Book Overview

This poignant and eloquent book is a memoir of the first decade of the AIDS epidemic in the Bronx, a physician's firsthand account of the emergence of an epidemic and the lives that it touched. it is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300071264
• ISBN13: 9780300071269
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Worth Reading

Surviving the Fall is eminently readable, quite fascinating and very moving. It makes the reader care about the troubled people who become Dr. Selwyn's AIDS patients. Dr. Selwyn also shares very personal insights into his own emotions and the journey he took in coming to terms with personal losses.

Heart warming description of the life of an AIDS physician

The author describes in gret detail his struggles and satisfactions working with AIDS patients in New York. As he continues his work he finds need to look into his own background and discovers the details of his father's death when he was a child. A heartwarming portrayal of how life experiences often unrecognized motivate us in our choice of profession and the way we carry out our responsibilities. A heart warming book. Morris Wessel, M.D.