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TALKING WITH DOCTORS IBD

DAVID NEWMAN
ROUTLEDGE
02 / 2015
9781138005884
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Without any warning, in September 1999, David Newman was told he had a rare and life-threatening tumor in the base of his skull.ááIn the compressed space of five weeks, he consulted with leading physicians and surgeons at four major medical centers.áThe doctors offered drastically differing opinions, several pronounced the tumor inoperable and voiced skepticism about the effectiveness of any nonsurgical treatment.áTalking with Doctors is the story of NewmanâÇÖs efforts, at a time of great stress and even impending death, to wend his way through the dense thicket of medical consultations in search of a physician and a treatment that offered the possibility of survival.á It is the story, especially, of the harrowing process of assessing conflicting 'expert' opinions and, in so doing, of making sense of the priorities, personalities, and vulnerabilities of different doctors.á All too often, he found, the leading specialists to whom he was sent were strangers in the consulting room-and strangers who became stranger still, both cognitively and emotionally, when ambiguous findings pushed them to the outer limits of their training and experience.áNewman writes poignantly of his sense of powerlessness and desperation, of the painstaking means by which he ascertained what could be known about his tumor, and of the fortuitous events that finally led him to life-saving help. áTalking with Doctors is a compelling, absorbing, unsettling story that touches a collective raw nerve about the experience of doctors and medical care when life-threatening illness leads us to subspecialists at major medical centers. Probing the nature of medical authority and the grounds of a trusting doctor-patient relationship, Newman illuminates with grace and power what it now means for a patient to participate in life-and-death medical decisions.

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