Taking Charge - A journey of recovery

I read Taking Charge - A journey of recovery by Graham Martin because he contracted Transverse Myelitis about five years ago.  As I also suffer from that I was interested to read about Graham's recovery.  I met Graham at a Transverse Myelitis Day held at Spinal Injuries Australia where he gave an interesting presentation.  In the book Graham tells what happened when he first realised something was wrong with his legs.  Graham is a medical doctor and a psychiatrist and works at a leading hospital in Brisbane.  When his illness manifested itself he was rushed to hospital and thus became a patient looking at the health system in a new and different light.  He was later transferred to another hospital and he was understandably frustrated with not knowing what was going on and what was wrong with him.   The book is written in an easy conversational style.  The book would have benefited from having a proof-reader.  I did get a bit annoyed that his story was interrupted by his experiences and pontificating about aspects of the health system.  I wanted to know more about attempts at diagnosis earlier in the book.  I admire his "taking charge" of his own rehabilitation and the successes he had, to the extent that he can now walk, carefully.  31/2/5