Roy B. Sessions

The Cancer Experience

The Doctor, the Patient, the Journey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Cancer Experience instructs doctors, medical students, and health care workers involved in cancer care on the proper role of medicine, the role of doctors, and the opportunities for connecting with patients as they make treatment and end of life decisions. It helps patients understand the issues facing doctors as they assist and care for them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781442216211
• ISBN-10: 1442216212
• Artikelnr.: 35336210

Autorenporträt

By Roy B. Sessions - Foreword by Edmund D. Pellegrino M.D.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Note on Terminology Foreword Acknowledgments Part I: Intellectual Considerations Prologue 1
Influences on My Development 2
Why the Book? 3
Protecting What's Good through the Educational Process: Capitalizing on the Gene Pool 4
Oncology Is Not for the Emotionally Stingy 5
Hope 6
Finding New Purpose after Enduring the Cancer Olympics 7
Changing Times, Changing Methods, Unchanging Mission 8
Seeking Functionality within a Moral Framework 9
A Practical Adaptation of the Original Oath in Search for Modern Relevance 10
Death and Dying: Natural and Otherwise 11
Suicide: Patient Conceived, Planned, and Consummated Part II: Interacting with Cancer Patients and Their Families 12
Informal Physician
Patient Communication 13
Patient Confidentiality and Special Patient Circumstances 14
Essentials of Communication Skills: Listening, Hearing, Reading Body Language 15
Gaining the Patient's Confidence 16
The Cancer Specialist as a Teacher of the Patient and Family: The Lead
Up to Treatment 17
The Physician as an Educator after Treatment: Using the Cancer as a Tool 18
The Journey from the Referring Doctor to the Oncologist: Uncertainty, Anxiety, and Hope along the Way 125 19
More on Physician Leadership: Being in Charge 20
Influences on Cancer Patients' Attitudes and Receptiveness 21
Communication When There Is Still Optimism for Cure 22
Communication Once Treatment Failure Is Obvious 23
Hospice Care 24
Facing Death and Dying with the Patient Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author