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Claudia Osborn was enjoying a summer bicycle ride one evening in her quiet tree-lined neighborhood, when a heedless young man lost control of his car, swerved around a street corner into her lane, and sent her flying over his car. She was not wearing a helmet. This book details the aftermath of the traumatic closed-head injury she sustained in that lifealtering moment.
Dr. Osborn had been practicing medicine for two years as an osteopathic doctor of internal medicine in Michigan. She was the director of the medicine residency training program at her hospital. Now, after admission into emergency and an overnight stay as a patient in the hospital where she had practiced, she was at home, making little progress toward recovery. Before the injury, she had been a vigorous, empathic, accomplished person both in her personal and professional life. At home, she perseverated regarding her need to return to work, had no short-term memory, lacked stamina, and found it almost impossible to plan and manage activities of daily living. How could she do...