Resources for Injured People
The following books are resources that injured people have found helpful and inspiring. Highly recommended reading.
Running Back, by Rocky Bleier
Rocky Bleier was a great running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was badly injured in Vietnam. He went back to his home in Wisconsin and worked endlessly in his old high school gym until slowly and painfully he got back to being able to play football. His story has inspired injured readers all over the country to deal with the battles they have to wage in order to contend with their own injuries. This is a great book to inspire injured people to make their own come back to the best of their ability.
The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships,
by Patrick J. Carnes
Exploitive relationships can create trauma bonds--chains that link a victim to someone who is dangerous to them. Divorce, employee relations, litigation of any type, incest and child abuse, family and marital systems, domestic violence, hostage negotiations, kidnapping, professional exploitation and religious abuse are all areas of trauma bonding. All these relationships share one thing: they are situations of incredible intensity or importance where there is an exploitation of trust or power.
In The Betrayal Bond Patrick Carnes presents an in-depth study of these relationships, why they form, who is most susceptible, and how they become so powerful. He shows how to recognize when traumatic bonding has occurred and gives a checklist for examining relationships. He then provides steps to safely extricate from these relationships.
How to Survive Your Doctor's Care, by Pamela F. Gallin, M.D.
FACS
This is a great book about avoiding the most common cause of accidental injury and death in America: medical negligence. It is a valuable book to help you and your family not to become the next victim of the most common cause of injury and death to Americans: medical error.
Studies show that 200,000 Americans die each year from medical negligence. Death from medical negligence is more than two times more likely to happen than death from all other kinds of accidents combined. So if you are interested in safety for you and your family, this is an important book for you. By using this book, you may never need a lawyer to sue your doctor. It is our hope that you protect yourself before you need a lawyer.
From Good Hands to Boxing Gloves: The Dark Side of Insurance,
by David J. Berardinelli, Esq.
This is a book which explains Allstate Insurance Company's nearly single-handed destruction of ethics in the insurance business. Berardinelli is a small town lawyer such as Fred Harrison. Berardinelli does a great job of showing the history and motivations behind Allstate Insurance Company's planning to systematically cheat the people that buy its insurance. This is an important book to understand the decline of business ethics in America.
Insult to Injury: Insurance, Fraud, and the Big Business of Bad Faith,
by Ray Bourhis
This is another good book about insurance companies committing fraud on unsuspecting policyholders. Often, people are in their most vulnerable circumstances after injury. Unscrupulous insurance companies have developed systematic ways of cheating people. All too often it is when people are the most vulnerable and unable to protect themselves after serious injury that insurance companies take advantage and commit acts of fraud.
Only the Constitutional Right to jury trial protects honest citizens from those insurance companies that have turned to cheating for more profit from those who really need the help in time of need than insurance promises.
Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankel
Man's Search for Meaning is one of Fred Harrison's personal all-time favorite books. At the beginning of the rise to power of the Nazi's in Germany and Austria, Frankel was a prominent psychiatrist and a neurologist practicing in Vienna. He had spent his life as a student of psychiatry in the school of Sigmund Freud. A Jew by birth, Frankel had lost his religious faith and even his belief in God. Frankel was working on a book that he envisioned to be his life's contribution to psychiatry.
Frankel's nightmare began when his entire family, and he himself, were taken into custody by the Nazi's. He watched as everything he loved was taken away from him. He watched helplessly as the Nazi's destroyed the last copy of what he believed to be his life's work. Every member of his family was killed.
Nevertheless, over the next four years Frankel survived the Nazi death camps and discovered the true meaning of life. In the end, he rediscovered his religious faith and came to believe again in God. And even during the worst of times Frankel came to see the hand of God always working and always turning even evil to eventual good.
