The Just Diagnosed Guide: How to Be Sick

You get a new diagnosis and now suddenly, you're a patient. You might wonder how to be sick, so you Google it.

Don't Google it.

The internet can scare and confuse new patients because it's full of misinformation, frightening medical statistics, and matter-of-fact content presented without empathy. How can you filter out what you don't need? Cancer, Covid, and heart failure survivor and medical writer Jen Singer has done the Googling for you.

We're taught how to be healthy. Why not how to be sick? The Just Diagnosed Guide: How to Be Sick is what you need to know now -- without Googling it. 

Jen Singer has survived cancer, Covid, and heart failure. For years, she was a medical writer for some of New York City's most prestigious hospitals. An accomplished author and blogger, she has appeared on the CBS Evening News, the Today show, and numerous podcasts. Her work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many more. She lives at the Jersey Shore (the place, not the TV show).