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Dancing at the River's Edge: A patient and her doctor negotiate life with chronic Illness

Alida Brill has an amazing story to tell and she tells it with power, grace, inspiration and humor. Herpresentation is infused with stories, spiritual metaphors, and a new language to enable others to live a full life - whatever the physical challenge. As she says, "we are the texts of our lives, not mere footnotes." In her work with medical students and doctors, Alida Brill uses her years as a social science researcher and her innate literary voice to take doctors and students to a new level of understanding. She says: "To find dialogue, to see one another as people, not a supplicant and savior is to find humanity in medicine."

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Alida Brill is an author and social critic. A sought after speaker she has appeared on television shows and is heard nationwide on a variety of radio programs. A noted and well-known advocate for women and girls, Alida kept a secret for many years. She has been unwell her entire life. Finally, in her latest book, she reveals this "other life" with her doctor, in an inspiring and shattering dual memoir, Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate Life with Chronic Illness (Schaffner Press, 2009-paperback, May 2010)

Trained as a social critic and researcher, Alida speaks with a naked frankness about her life and the lives of others who are residents of her "planet." She talks about not only what disease has done to her but also more importantly what disease has done for her. She is humbled by her illness (an atypical form of Wegener's Granulomatosis, long diagnosed as Lupus). From a life viewed through this prism she hasa formed a different and compelling vision of suffering, compassion, forgiveness and relationships. In her work with physicians and with medical students she advances the concept of working toward dialogue. She passionately believes that the "us versus them" mentality of doctors and patients is counterproductive to healing. While she acknowledges that disease is a part of her life she has found through a variety of techniques and tools a way to life a life apart from disease as well.

David Isay founder of StoryCorps and of Sound-Portraits (NPR) said this about "Dancing: An extraordinary meditation on illness - a poetic, powerful and groundbreaking work that illuminates the resilience and strength of the human spirit. A remarkable book."