Inside/Outside : A Physician's Journey with Breast Cancer /

To doctors, cancer means cells growing out of control; to patients, cancer means a life spinning out of control. Janet R. Gilsdorf, who writes with quiet but devastating honesty about her experience with breast cancer, offers an eye-opening glimpse, through her unique dual perspective as physician a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gilsdorf, Janet R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gilsdorf, Janet R.
Gilsdorf, Janet R
Gilsdorf, Janet R. > Health.
Physicians.
Pediatricians.
Health.
Breast > Cancer > Patients.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
physicians.
patients.
Femmes medecins.
Patients.
Medecins > États-Unis > Biographies.
Pediatres > États-Unis > Biographies.
Sein > Cancer > Patients > États-Unis > Biographies.
Physicians, Women
Patients
Breast Neoplasms
Women physicians.
Physicians > United States > Biography.
Pediatricians > United States > Biography.
Breast > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Recits personnels.
Personal narratives.
collective biographies.
Biography
Autobiography
Personal Narrative
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:To doctors, cancer means cells growing out of control; to patients, cancer means a life spinning out of control. Janet R. Gilsdorf, who writes with quiet but devastating honesty about her experience with breast cancer, offers an eye-opening glimpse, through her unique dual perspective as physician and patient, of both sides of the medical divide. The medical system delivers cures, answers, and relief from pain to those who seek its help, but it can also offer misinformation, shattered expectations, horrible options, and inhumane consideration of the people it is supposed to serve. As Gils.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780472021826

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