The First Year: Cirrhosis: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed Paperback – 30 Oct. 2006

After my husband’s diagnosis I trawled the internet for information and was very disappointed as there is hardly any information on this disease.This book is very informative and lets you know what questions to ask and advises of what to expect after your diagnosis.Some of it is not not relevant to uk readers as talks about health insurance but I just skipped this bit.I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for more information on Liver disease and liver cirrhosis.

I'm probably too critical, perhaps because I'm a doctor and have access to the British Medical Journal and the online BMJ Learning modules, but I didn't find out much I didn't already know. Having been a psychiatrist, I found the book underestimates the effort required to make the suggested lifestyle changes and am sceptical over the effectiveness of alternative medicine. I didn't think much of the chapter on depression either. Something on dealing with the sheer anger about having cirrhosis might have been useful too.

With such ridiculously obvious remarks as mentioned in this heading above ,the book is not even worth one star.The author is overwhelmingly self righteous .To compound this literary debacle, he disturbingly dismisses depression with an arrogant air.Avoid.

I found this to be a very doom and gloom approach to this illness. It’s not the end of the line. It IS possible to recover, or at least stabilise the condition. I think this would scare the living daylights out of the newly diagnosed.....

I would only recommend getting the best accurate and professional information from a qualified medical clinician. Save your money