Dolor de Uno, Dolor de Todos / When One Hurts, We All Hurt

En este libro, el reconocido médico Arnoldo Kraus desmenuza el dolor en sus diversas manifestaciones y explica cómo desde su óptica se puede redefinir la existencia y afrontar la muerte. Arnoldo Kraus nos entrega un ensayo luminoso cuyo hilo conductor es el dolor y el aprendizaje vital que deriva de sus múltiples experiencias. Saberse »ulnerable y adentrarse en la nada son atributos de lo que el autor llama la «escuela del dolor». Aunque no existe propiamente una escuela del dolor, «pensar el mundo a partir del cuerpo lastimado, cavilar en el llanto de la tierra y vincular ambos eventos con los sucesos de los otros, dice el autor, son pilares de esa hipotética pero necesaria escuela». ¿Qué podemos aprender del dolor? ¿Cómo construir una nueva vida a partir de sus lecciones?
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In When One Hurts, We All Hurt, Arnoldo Kraus speaks constantly about the need that pain sufferers have for that ray of hope on the horizon, that comforting feeling: to feel heard, even touched.
With a prologue by Francisco González Crussí
"In the clinic, the most frequently used word is 'pain;' transferring that load to someone else and accepting that it has found a safe harbor allows afflicted people to rest, to know that their pains and fears were understood, and they often start feeling better without medication and without the need for exams and X-rays... As if giving a reminder to those who seem to have forgotten it, Dr. Arnoldo Kraus mentions in this book that a physician's first duty is to alleviate suffering; that pain is not a benefit but a burden that weighs on the patient, making him sicker than he would be without it. The fact that pain might be, from a philosophical point of view, inexpressible or beyond words, says the author, doesn't mean that words don't play a decisive part in alleviating it. The deep truth of the pain might be indescribable, but the insightful Dr. Arnoldo Kraus has on his side the experience that leads him to write conscientiously on this topic."