Common Bonds: Reflections of a Cancer Doctor [Paperback]

M.D. E. Roy Berger (Author), Linda A. Mittiga (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 24, 2001 | ISBN-10: 075961377X | ISBN-13: 978-0759613775

Common Bonds: Reflections of a Cancer Doctor offers cancer patients and their families, friends, and health care workers a unique opportunity to examine the mind and conscience of a busy cancer practitioner. It offers a compassionate and inspiring look at a major, overlooked aspect of the battle against cancer. As such, this book opens the door to better communication and understanding and creates greater patient awareness of the physician's often hidden emotional involvement.Taken from the rigors of Dr. Berger's daily life, including actual cases, Common Bonds offers a moving, illuminating narrative of wonderful, wild, and woeful accounts of doctor-patient relationships. You'll feel compelled to keep reading, even long stretches, to determine the fate of the various patients introduced.The stories Dr. Berger provides are about people to whom other cancer patients can easily relate. The interactions he describes are certain to help readers more readily fathom their own behavior with their doctors, and thus help foster a more healing doctor-patient-family relationship.

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About the Author

E. Roy Berger is a medical oncologist, researcher, and lecturer around the country. He is a partner in a highly regarded private practice, North Shore Hematology-Oncology Associates, which has offices in both East Setauket and Smithtown, New York.Having received his medical oncology training at the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, he has served as a consultant there as well as having staff positions at Mather and St. Charles Hospitals in Port Jefferson and St. Catherine of Siena Hospital in Smithtown.He serves as Chairman of PAACT - Prostrate Cancer Oncology Group, and is a member of the Prostrate Cancer Education Council. He has participated in numerous research studies, which have led to the Federal Drug Administration approval of drugs such as Strontium and Flutamide, both considered advances in the treatment of prostrate and other cancers. His subspecialty is Prostrate Cancer.In this candid medical autobiography, he shows laymen and patients what a cancer doctor thinks and feels, how strong the common bonds between doctor and patient can be, 'what it's like to be the person at the other end of the stethoscope.'

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (May 24, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075961377X
• ISBN-13: 978-0759613775
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,144,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Touching, well written, and incredibly insightful, February 5, 1999

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This review is from: Common Bonds: Reflections of a Cancer Doctor (Hardcover)

This book is a winner. Never before have I encountered a book on Cancer from the doctor's point of view. Dr. Berger reveals not only his knowledge but his intense range of emotions on the subject. I recommend this book to anyone whose life has been touched by this disease.