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The Cancer Experience - Roy B. Sessions

The Cancer Experience

The Doctor, the Patient, the Journey

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2012
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1621-1 (ISBN)
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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.
Navigating the tumultuous waters of cancer treatment and decision making is difficult for all patients. It is also difficult for doctors and other medical personnel. This books deals with a variety of emotion-related and ethics issues that form much of the basis of the world of cancer related medicine: the responsibilities of the physician relative to truth, full disclosure, patient autonomy, death and dying, physician assisted suicide, and suicide in general among cancer patients.  These and many other matters are discussed using real stories from the author’s extensive personal career in working with cancer patients and their families.  This is not a book on treating cancer, but instead is a work that seeks to stimulate a dialog about these issues as well as the spiritual aspects of hope and other factors relating to the plight of cancer patients and their families.
 
Written for health care professionals and cancer victims and their families alike, the core of the book centers around questions of medical ethics, doctor-patient relationships, decision making during cancer treatment (from medical and patient points of view). Given the emotional commitment and energy level required to work with cancer patients in a moral and ethical manner, medical students and residents will ask themselves: do I really want to be a cancer physician?  Can I handle the ups and downs of treating people who may (or may not) be destined to fight and lose the battle against this strong nemesis? How will I answer the tough questions regarding medical approaches to cancer? How will I respond to patients who indicate a desire to commit suicide or request my help in doing so? What can I tell families whose loved one is choosing treatments that will not help and will deteriorate his quality of life? Basing his responses on the Oath of Hippocrates, the author illustrates how adaptable this oath actually is when considering the secular society in which we function. 
 
The Cancer Experience instructs doctors, medical students, and health care workers involved in cancer care on the proper role of medicine, the role of the doctor, and the opportunities for connecting with patients as they help them make decisions regarding treatment and end of life issues. It helps patients understand the issues facing doctors as they assist them, care for them, and try to maintain both close personal relationships but enough emotional and professional distance in order to protect themselves from the stress and strain when medicine fails and patients must face the hardest choices. Here the author promotes a return to traditional medical values that promote closer doctor-patient relationships in an effort to promote trust, civility, and partnership.

Roy B. Sessions, M.D., retired from active practice in 2008 and is currently a Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at The Medical University of South Carolina. During his almost 40 year career he is responsible for over 140 scientific publications, including 3 editions of Cancer Of The Head And Neck: A Multidisciplinary Approach (with Harrison and Hong). The first of these won the Doody International Medical Book of the Year Award among 4000 other textbooks. He has been associated with Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/Cornell Medical College and Beth Israel Cancer Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and served 10 years as the Chairman of  the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine. During his academic career, he served as a consultant to the NCI, and was a member of the Editorial Board of their journal, the PDQ.  Dr. Sessions has lectured extensively in the U.S. and internationally, including Germany, China, UK, Italy, France, Ecuador, Brazil, and Japan.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.6.2012
Vorwort Edmund D. Pellegrino M.D.
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 236 mm
Gewicht 458 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Onkologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege
ISBN-10 1-4422-1621-2 / 1442216212
ISBN-13 978-1-4422-1621-1 / 9781442216211
Zustand Neuware
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