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Inside/outside : a physician's journey with 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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2006.
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| Collection: | Conversations in medicine and society.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The diagnosis
- "Physician heal thyself"
- Egalitarianism bumps against personal needs
- The power of language
- Telling my people
- "Lies, damn lies, and statistics"
- The three hells: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation
- Biology for artists and linguists
- The nodes know
- Interlude. adrift
- Pain and mutilation
- La morte, la vie
- Kill my cancer but don't kill me
- Rapunzel, Rapunzel--
- Seeing purple seashells and other unexpected things
- Iatrogenesis
- Friends, forever
- And then they burn you
- Reentry and beyond
- Emerging
- It never goes away
- The road to wellness goes through Monterey, California, and Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Restructuring a life.