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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – 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. In The Cancer Experience: The Doctor, The Patient, The Journey, Dr. Roy Sessions 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, cancer patients, and the patients’ families alike, the core of this book centers around questions of medical ethics, doctor-patient relationships, and methods of decision making during cancer treatment. 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. Dr. Sessions 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. He has 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.
For further information: http://www.thecancerexperience.com/
Pub date is April 15, 2012… Available now.
The Cancer Experience: The Doctor, The Patient, The Journey
Roy B. Sessions, MD
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC.
An Imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
www.rowman.com
IBSN:978-1-4422-1621-1
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