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edition:eBook
category: Fiction
published: Feb 2016
ISBN:9781771801379
publisher: Iguana Books

Patiently Waiting For…

by Jeff Nisker

tagged: medical, public health
Description

Patiently Waiting For… is the story of the indomitable, feisty, and subversive Ruth, who, having quadriplegia, longs to access a wider world through use of available software and a computer. She decides to almost run over, with her power chair, a physician who is also a writer of health-related social justice plays and ask him to write her story. What results is this powerful indictment of the inequality of care and diminishing access to accommodation that has widened the divide between those who can afford to pay for health promotion and those who cannot.

About the Author
Jeff Nisker has written or co-written over 150 scientific articles and book chapters and seven plays, performed in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa. He held Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Genome Canada grants exploring the use of theatre for citizen deliberation in health policy development. For his work using theatre for research and education, Jeff received the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Educator of the Year Award and Western’s Faculty Scholar Award for Innovation. Jeff has also been awarded the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada’s President’s Award, and he was chosen by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Peter Gzowski as one of the “Best Minds of Our Time.”

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