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Inside/outside : a physician's journey with cancer /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilsdorf, Janet R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, c2006.
Series:Conversations in medicine and society.
Subjects:
Gilsdorf, Janet R. > Health.
University of Michigan > Faculty > Biography.
Breast > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography.
Pediatricians > United States > Biography.
Physicians > United States > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.