Overview
"Threatened with a rare and life-threatening cancer, a scientist works with his doctors to make decisions in the face of uncertainty. After patients are diagnosed with a dreaded disease, they learn two daunting facts: that no doctor has all the answers, and that there are no answers, only odds. For the patients (and their families) who want to be involved in the key choices regarding treatment, Stephen Schneider is the ideal guide. A climate scientist, his life's work is decision making in the face of great uncertainty. This important book is both his own gripping story of working with his doctors to get the best care possible, and also a brilliant critique of the flawed system under which most doctors must now practice. The vital, even life-saving lessons of the books include: advice on obtaining and interpreting odds; how to seek better treatments that may not fit the usual ""standard of care""; ways to get treated as a unique individual and not the mythical Average Patient; how to recognize the decisions that you, rather than the doctors must make; and, most important, how to build a partnership with a sometimes reluctant doctor."
Full Product Details
Author: Dr. Stephen H. Schneider ,
Janica Lane
Publisher: Hachette Books
Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.342kg
ISBN: 9780738210780
ISBN 10: 0738210781
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 26 September 2006
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
"""Becoming a patient from hell could save your life."" ""Compelling...a frightening medical adventure."" -- Donald Kennedy, Ph.D. ""Indispensable. Schneider shows how to talk back to your doctor politely and begin the conversation that might save your life."" -- Jonathan Alter ""Receiving a diagnosis of cancer can bring out the best or the worst in patients.... For Stephen H. Schneider, Ph.D. it brought out the fighter.... The story is compelling.... It offers a number of positive and useful messages for patients enduring chemo-therapy, radiation, and other cancer treatments."""
Receiving a diagnosis of cancer can bring out the best or the worst in patients.... For Stephen H. Schneider, Ph.D. it brought out the fighter.... The story is compelling.... It offers a number of positive and useful messages for patients enduring chemo-therapy, radiation, and other cancer treatments.
Becoming a patient from hell could save your life. Indispensable. Schneider shows how to talk back to your doctor politely and begin the conversation that might save your life. -- Jonathan Alter Compelling...a frightening medical adventure. -- Donald Kennedy, Ph.D. Receiving a diagnosis of cancer can bring out the best or the worst in patients.... For Stephen H. Schneider, Ph.D. it brought out the fighter.... The story is compelling.... It offers a number of positive and useful messages for patients enduring chemo-therapy, radiation, and other cancer treatments.
Author Information
Stephen H Schneider is Professor of Biological Science at Stanford, a MacArthur Prize Fellowship winner, and author of major works on climate change and environment. He has written for, and his work has been covered by, the Times, the New York Times and Washington Post. He has appeared on many TV shows including The Today Show and Good Morning America.
