It's Hell Getting Old: The Road to Wellness--almost - Tapa blanda

A year of medical experiences of an 81-year old man in a major teaching hospital. The good and the bad with hope for more attention to the human side of medicine. The hospital CEO shares his goals and personal experiences after he had a recent severe spine damaging accident. Fourteen different doctors in a year were the guides to the author's road to wellness.

John Larish has written a dozen books and many articles for popular and technical publications and has appeared as a guest speaker at meetings for many organizations both in the United States and overseas, including the American Management Association, Photo Marketing Association, Electronic Industries Association, Society of Photographic and Science Technology of Japan in Tokyo, Consumer Electronic Association, the IS&T, and others. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Biological Photographers Association, Society for Information and Science Technology, and the Optical Society of America have published his technical papers. He reported for more than a dozen years on business and technology for WXXI-AM radio and was the imaging analyst for R-News, a television news channel in Rochester, New York. He has regularly appeared on other television and radio talk shows. John was a founding Editor/Publisher of Electronic Photography News, the earliest monthly publication in that field. He is also currently or has been a contributing editor for several publications including Advanced Imaging, Digital Imaging, PTN, International Contact, and Photo Industry Reporter where his Technology Tomorrow column appears regularly. He has been a contributing writer to a number of other publications such as the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Optics & Photonics News. He was a contributor to the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography and the 1996 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology. Now as an 81-year old, he has faced new medical challenges. It has been hell at times.