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.
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.
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
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
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