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The Patient from Hell: How I Worked with My Doctors to Get the Best of Modern Medicine and How You Can Too

The Patient from Hell: How I Worked with My Doctors to Get the Best of Modern Medicine and How You Can Too

by StephenH.Schneider (Author), JanicaLane (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

In the bewildering days after diagnosis of a severe disease, patients learn two daunting facts: One, no doctor has all the answers, and two, there are no answers, only odds. For readers (and their families) who want to be involved in the key choices regarding treatment, Dr. 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 treatment possible, and also a brilliant critique of the flawed system under which doctors must now operate. 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 chemotherapy, radiation, and other cancer treatments. (Journal of the American Medical Association) Compelling...a frightening medical adventure. (Donald Kennedy, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of Science)

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Perseus Books
Published: 02 Nov 2006
ISBN 10: 0738210781
ISBN 13: 9780738210780

Media Reviews
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 Bio
Stephen H. Schneider, Ph.D., is Professor of Biological Science at Stanford University, a MacArthur Prize Fellowship winner, and author of major works on climate change and the environment. He has written for and his works have been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and London Times.