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Courage and Information for Life with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
The handbook for patients, families, and care givers managing COPD (emphysema, asthmatic bronchitis, or chronic bronchitis). Rick Carter, Ph.D., Brooke Nicotra, M.D., and Jo-Von Tucker, COPD patient, with Forewords by Dr. Thomas Petty, M.D., and Dr. Brian Tiep, M.D. ISBN 1-882431-07-3 $40.00 September 2001. Second edition with a new section on Family Matters by Richard Knowles, Brian Tiep, and Jo-Von Tucker
Courage and Information Readers praise | A book to help you help yourself | Foreword by Brian L. Tiep, MD | Foreword by Thomas L. Petty MD | Introduction | Table of Contents | The Devastation of the Diagnosis (Jo-Von Tucker) | Appreciation of Jo-Von Tucker | Feature story | Courage: Authors | BUY Courage and Information | Seeing the story
Readers and Reviewers Praise Courage and Information
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This is a can't-be-put-down book, you are totally drawn into the life of Jo-Von Tucker, her hopes, fears, and fighting spirit. Everyone who reads this book will be enriched. What everyone needs—knowledge given with a loving and understanding heart.—Ann E Kennedy, COPD patient
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Lets the light shine in for those in darkness. Courage and Information has been devoured by two friends with COPD. Their doctor wants a copy. This is a splendid book, very educational and understandable. Thank you.—Jacqueline Foley, COPD patient, 81 years of age
- I rate this text "Excellent." The cost is not prohibitive and patients, family members, and caregivers will all benefit from the information presented. —Kenneth A. Wyka, MS, RRT. Focus: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine, Spring 2002. Review in Acrobat (PDF) format
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Almost everything there is to know about COPD. If I had COPD, I would want this book and suggest that family members or friends read it to help them better understand my battle to adapt.—Henri Colt, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California. Advance for Managers of Respiratory Care, September 2000
- The book may be the best, ever, especially for the newly-diagnosed patient. The authors cover COPD in a manner that is easy to read and put to use. —Bill Horden: THE COPD ADVOCATE: "A Voice for the COPD Patient" (October 2000) Issue #2
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An excellent, concise, easy-to-read resource for both patients and professionals."—Paul A Selecky MD, Respiratory Care, November 2000
- Clearly written, easy to read, straightforward illustrations. An excellent handbook for people with COPD and their families and a valuable resource for the health care specialist.—John P Sanko PT, EdD Physical Therapy, May 2001
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Insightful, informational, and educational. Jo-Von’s perceptions of what it is like living with this disease make this required reading for nurses and therapists and for every student of nursing, respiratory therapy, and physical therapy. Jo-Von’s directions for self-management will prove invaluable advice to COPD patients.—Ron Corbett, RRT
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An excellent handbook. Very readable and full of useful information. An excellent resource for patients, families, and caregivers. The information on traveling with oxygen should be especially useful.
Jo-Von Tucker has done a remarkable job, fulfilling her goal to assist other patients to become as independent as possible. She very quickly identified a need for such a book as she personally sought to gain information to assist her to continue her active lifestyle.
Through her insight and persevereance she has provided a resource that I know she wished had been available when she was striving to become informed about COPD. Thanks, Jo-Von, for sharing your knowledge and great spirit. —S. Arlene Niccoli (Nurse, retired) -
Their doctor should be their consultant, as well as their friend and counselor. The relationship between patient and doctor is a key to success. This book is written from two viewpoints—the customer and the treatment provider, giving a basis for collaboration.—Thomas L. Petty MD
From the publisher
The goal of the book is to show you what you can do to help yourself—to enable you to be involved in your own treatment and strengthen your success in treatment and rehabilitation. Based on the principles of pulmonary rehabilitation programs, this handbook is designed to help get you, the COPD patient, engaged in an ongoing dialog with your professional caregivers—and make the most of available treatments.
Contributions by two pioneers and leaders in the field of COPD rehabilitation, Thomas Petty, M.D. and Brien Tiep, M.D. reinforce the message that you can dramatically improve your life through a comprehensive rehabilitation program.
An authoritative explanation of causes, treatments, and rehabilitation methods that teaches patients to understand the importance of advice and guidance from their health care team. An ideal complement to a formal rehabilitation program. If no rehabilitation program is available, this book can be a foundation for caregiver and patient to collaborate on an individual program of therapy.
People with COPD their families, their primary care doctors, their pulmonologists, and their respiratory therapists will all benefit from reading this book.
