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Discharged from a hospital just means youre not dead. These words of Ralph B. Lilly, M.D., describe his early struggle to recover from a traumatic brain injury. Lilly was a forty-four-year-old practicing neurologist sitting on his motorcycle at a red light when a drunk driver rear-ended him in 1980. In the ICU, after regaining consciousness and being told what happened, he asked, Whats a hospital? Whats a motorcycle? This tragic experience transformed his life and his approach to his neurology practice: doctors treat those with brain injury; but loved ones heal them.

Second Lives: The Journey of Brain Injury Survivors and Their Healers is written by Dr. Lilly and Diane F. Kramer. After his death in 2021, Kramer completed the book with the assistance of Lillys wife Joyce Stamp Lilly. This memoir weaves together Ralph Lillys experience with a collage of stories about his patients and their healers. After his recovery, Lilly retrained in the emerging field of behavioral neurology, which focuses on behavior, memory, cognition, and emotion after brain injury.

His clinical skills and expert witness testimony were sought by physicians, survivors, families, and attorneys to secure the best second life for survivors. His many patients marveled at his uniquely compassionate approach: What doctor gives you his cell number and says call any time? Lillys pioneering career spanned forty years from Brown Universitys Butler Psychiatric Hospital in Rhode Island to Nexus Health System and private practice in Houston, Texas. He treated ER and hospital inpatients whose loved ones were in acute quandary, as well as outpatients whod long given up finding a doctor who knew how to help. Lillys memoir is full of heart, not science, and will provide insight to general readers, family, and friends of patients with brain injury, as well as those who treat them.

His narration is unintentionally poignant, often punctuated by wry humor. He generously incorporates the words of his patients and their families in telling their stories. Their gratitude for his care is profound. As one former patient said, Without Dr. Lilly, Id be dead or in jail.

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A neurologist grapples with the aftermath of his traumatic brain injury, forever changing how he treats patients and their families, in this moving examination of recovery and healing.

Ralph Lilly was a forty-four-year-old practicing neurologist sitting on his when a drunk driver rear-ended him on his motorcycle in 1980. In the ICU, after regaining consciousness and being told what happened, he asked, Whats a hospital? Whats a motorcycle? His accident and subsequent struggle toward recovery transformed his life and his approach to his neurology practice: doctors treat those with brain injury, but loved ones heal them.

After his recovery, Lilly retrained in the emerging field of behavioral neurology, focusing on behavior, memory, cognition, and emotion after brain injury. His pioneering career spanned forty years from Brown Universitys Butler Psychiatric Hospital in Rhode Island to Nexus Health System and private practice in Houston, Texas. He treated ER and hospital inpatients and became a sought-after resource and expert.

Completed after he died in 2021 by Diane F. Kramer with assistance from Lillys wife, Joyce Stamp Lilly, Second Lives is a memoir full of heart as much as science. Its an invaluable resource for the family and loved ones of patients with brain injury, as well as those who treat them.

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