Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness

National Review, Oct 27, 1997 by Anthony Daniels

Besides, the authors of memoirs of illness enjoy a great and automatic advantage: one must not speak ill of the ill. To cast doubt upon their moral authority is no better than to mug a person in a wheelchair. In an age of rude good health, the ill are heroes, no less to be admired than the warriors and statesmen of old. Let us, therefore, praise unwell men.

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