Letty Cottin Pogrebin in Conversation with Phil Donahue

Everyone knows someone who’s sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us do or say the wrong thing or feel awkward or ill-equipped to help.

Drawing on more than eighty revelatory interviews and her personal experience with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and legendary talk show host Phil Donahue discuss Letty’s new book, How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick which takes on—without flinching—the most challenging questions of how to provide comfort and ballast to people closest to us.