The Elephant in the Room Stories About Cancer Patients and their Doctors /

• Main Author: Waxman, Jonathan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Oncology.; Medicine.; Health.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.

The Elephant in the Room is a collection of real life short stories about cancer patients and their doctors.  These stories comfort and entertain, inform and engage, and are a treat to read. With humour and empathy, Jonathan Waxman explores the human side of cancer.

Table of Contents:

• Rick's Big Adventure
• All My Trials
• Snake Oil and Chips
• Smoker's Cough
• Conference with Counsel
• Coming Through
• Here's Harry
• Why Me?
• How Do They Know What I've Got?
• Doctors and Cancer: Firewall.