This article is from last Thursday, but I still wanted to point it out. Dr. Pauline Chen writes in The New York Times about the choices patients make and a new book called Sick Girl by Amy Silverstein. The book offers explores the patient's perspective of being chronically ill. While their lives may have been saved by life-saving procedures such as transplants, they still have to deal with being sick each and every day of their lives. This leads to mixed emotions of being grateful for life but frustrated by life at the same time. And many times, chronically ill patients feel like they cannot express the frustrations and anger about their illness because of expectations that they should be optimistic.
You can find the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/health/10chen.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
And the discussion here: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/the-choices-patients-make/
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