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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Author's Note on Terminology Foreword AcknowledgmentsPart I: Intellectual ConsiderationsPrologue 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 Stingy5- Hope 6- Finding New Purpose after Enduring the Cancer Olympics7- Changing Times, Changing Methods, Unchanging Mission8- Seeking Functionality within a Moral Framework9- A Practical Adaptation of the Original Oath in Search for Modern Relevance10- Death and Dying: Natural and Otherwise11- Suicide: Patient Conceived, Planned, and ConsummatedPart II: Interacting with Cancer Patients and Their Families 12- Informal Physician-Patient Communication13- Patient Confidentiality and Special Patient Circumstances14- Essentials of Communication Skills: Listening, Hearing, Reading Body Language15- Gaining the Patient's Confidence16- The Cancer Specialist as a Teacher of the Patient and Family: The Lead-Up to Treatment17- The Physician as an Educator after Treatment: Using the Cancer as a Tool18- The Journey from the Referring Doctor to the Oncologist: Uncertainty, Anxiety, and Hope along the Way 12519- More on Physician Leadership: Being in Charge20- Influences on Cancer Patients' Attitudes and Receptiveness21- Communication When There Is Still Optimism for Cure22- Communication Once Treatment Failure Is Obvious23- Hospice Care 24- Facing Death and Dying with the PatientEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author...
