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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1. Verfasser: Gilsdorf, Janet R.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2006.
Schriftenreihe:Conversations in medicine and society.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 237 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780472021826
0472021826
1282423371
9781282423374
9786612423376
6612423374

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