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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: “Unforgettable . . . Few have told such a compelling life-story as skillfully” ( San Francisco Chronicle ). In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, singer/songwriter Ben Watt, one half of the  Billboard -topping pop duo Everything But The Girl, was taken to a London hospital complaining of chest pain. As his condition worsened, doctors were baffled. He was eventually he was diagnosed with a rare life-threatening autoimmune disease called Churg-Strauss Syndrome. “To paraphrase Joseph Heller,” Ben says, “you know it’s something serious when they name it after two guys.” By the time he came home, two-and-half-months later, his ravaged body was forty-six pounds lighter, and he was missing most of his small intestine. “Unfold[ing] like a page-turning mystery” ( The Los Angeles Times ), and “told with great wit and without self-pity,  Patient  is a sobering look at how life can suddenly be transformed into a humbling vaudeville of tests, IV’s, catheters, and bedpans” ( The New York Times Book Review ). Injecting a frankness and natural humility into his “funny, frightening, and piercingly vulnerable” ( Interview ) chronicle of a

Who reads Patient : The True Story of a Rare Illness?

Author

Ben Watt; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Grove Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802135834

Category

music

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.03 / 5 (311 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14