ISBN: 0-88739-153-2
148 pp.
Size: 5 x 8
Paperback
Price: $13.50
Hardcover
Price: $23.50
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Promise to Akiko
Tsuneko Kunou, M.D.
This true story, by Tsuneko Kunou, of a mother's sustaining love for her daughter, Akiko, plays itself out at the hands of stubborn, incompetent doctors as they commit serious errors in judgment that their egos won't allow them to admit: Akiko's death is the result. Dr. Kunou's journal of feelings, a love story and a promise to Akiko, has shaken the medical community in Japan, where malpractice is nonexistent.
Review: "In A Promise to Akiko: A Mother's Notes, translated from the Japanese after wide sales in Japan, doctor and mother Tsuneko Kunou tells the wrenching story of a series of medical blunders and ego-driven misdiagnoses that led her daughter to die of a treatable brain tumor. It is just as much a story of the powerful love between mothers and daughters as one of medical malpractice."
- Publishers Weekly
"The words told by Dr. Kunou as a patient's parent and as a doctor are very moving."
- Original Japanese Review
Saga Shinbun, September 1994
Bio: Dr. Tsuneko Kunou was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1936; at age 24 she graduated from medical school in Osaka. A Promise to Akiko: A Mother's Notes, originally published in 1992, after her 17-year-old daughter Akiko died due to medical malpractice, has sold over 50,000 copies in Japan.
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