You Don't Have to Die from Cancer: Taking Active Charge

By Abraham Khazam

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0855722665
• ISBN13: 9780855722661
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Hill of Content Pub Co Pty Ltd
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Patients, doctors, and healing

An excellent and important work, written by a medical doctor who has over 35 years of experience in general practise and psychiatric hospitals, explaining that * a doctor must treat the patient, not just the disease * the mind is not just one's rational self, but includes also the emotional self, which is significal and powerful * enduring and severe stress has a strongly negative effect on the body's defensive and healing processes. Although the book's focus is on cancer and the cancer patient, the ideas and coping strategies are applicable to any serious illness. And it is aimed not just at the patient, but the patient's family and friends who make up the support network, because they play a crucial role, and who may inadvertently undermine the patient by assuming the worst - so that every handshake of an old friend becomes a silent goodbye. And lastly, the book should be read by those in the medical profession, the doctors, nurses, surgeons, radiologists, all the specialists, who by their assumptions that they are providing "just the clear facts" are actually sending destructive and demoralizing messages.The title is a bit unfortunate - the book has a broader scope; it is about mind, body, healing, hi tech modern medicine, and how the practise of medicine must be changed to allow patients to exercise their responsibilities to participate actively in their own treatment and healing