"...A moving account..."
- Dr. Andrew Weil

He was one of the world's leading cancer experts, yet when his wife was stricken with stomach cancer, not even his skills and dedication could reverse the grim prognosis. But together Andrea and Sidney Winawer became explorers in a new world outside of mainstream medicine.  Healing Lessons is the story of a doctor's transformation - the new treatments he embraced and the lessons he learned on the opposite side of the doctor-patient relationship.  Above all, it is a testament to the strength of love.

Praise for Healing Lessons...

"This wrenching memoir...is neither a polemic against organized medicine nor merely the story of a doctor's discovery of humanism...Instead, it is a wonderful portrait of Andrea Winawer, whom the reader begins to see through her husband's eyes:  beautiful and vigorous, yet not without foibles and eccentricities, a good mother to three children.  Ultimately, Healing Lessons is a story rendered poignant by Winawer the physician being forced to live the narrative his patients have told him for years.  Healing Lessons reminds us to live fully, intensely, without waiting for illness or disaster to bring home the fleeting quality of human life."
- Abraham Verghese, New York Times Book Review

"In a moving account, Dr. Sidney Winawer related his journey with his wife, Andrea, a journey that ultimately opens him to new possibilities in medicine, including an integrative approach to cancer.  I will recommend this book to my colleagues, students, and patients and thank Sid Winawer for sharing such a personal story."
- Dr. Andrew Weil, author of Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health

"A poignant and haunting story, compellingly narrated - a book that has much to teach us about life's ironies and tragedies, but also about redemptive possibilities."
-Dr. Robert Coles, author of The Call of Stories:  Teaching and the Moral Imagination

"A true story of love and personal growth in which a conventional physician's world is turned upside down when his wife diagnosed with a deadly cancer, begins exploring alternative medical therapies...A heartbreaking story that is not only a tribute to one woman's fighting spirit but gives testimony to the power of love to open the mind."
- Kirkus Reviews

Sidney J. Winawer, M.D. is chariman of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program, attending physician, member with tenure, and holder of the Paul Sherlock Chair at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  He is also professor of medicine at Cornell University Medical College.  Nick Taylor is the author of five nonfiction books, including Sins of the Father and A Necessary End.