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Title: A Physician's Guide to Pain and Symptom Management in Cancer Patients by Janet L., Md. Abrahm ISBN: 0-8018-6246-9 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wisdom is rarely so practical
Comment: Dr. Abrahm has written a book that is at once clinically sound and widely accessible. The premise is plain: "Suffering can be prevented or treated whenever it occurs, whether at diagnosis or during curative therapy, or if the cancer recurs."
In the chapters to follow, Dr. Abrahm makes good on this claim, not only by answering practical technical questions with skill, but also by including specific experiences and verbatim dialogue. Communicating with patients is no small part of helping them and their families.
The book contains basic information about common pain types and treatments. It also includes careful discussion of how to manage difficult pain syndromes and other symptoms of cancer.
Because the chapters are well-referenced, one quickly gains guidance beyond pharmacological symptoms and treatments. The inclusion of information about nonpharmacologic care; the importance of the care team (nurse, social worker, oncologist, pain specialist); and, finally the specifics about religious considerations, advance directives, and grief and bereavement give the book its true handbook value for clinicians.
If you are early in your medical career, or interested in understanding pain and other symptom management, or if you are trying to understand and help a loved one with cancer, this book is a wise investment.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Approach to This Issue Ever
Comment: For years, doctors have focused on curing the objective aspects of illness or disease, but have ignored -- or downplayed -- the subjective aspects, principally pain. Society's hypersensitivity to the misuse of drugs has only made the problem worse. Finally, one of the country's leading oncologists takes the problem seriously. This book, although designed for clinicians, should be read by every person who must confront pain either in themselves or a friend or relative. Written clearly and compellingly, this book now becomes the authoritative source on this important and overlooked subject. Put another way, any physician who is not familiar with this book simply is not being fair to his or her patients and is not staying current on a central part of current medicine.
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Title: Evidence Based Symptom Control in Palliative Care : Systemic Reviews and Validated Clinical Practice Guidelines for 15 Common Problems in Patients with Life Limiting Disease by Arthur G. Lipman, Kenneth C., Ii, Jackson, Linda S. Tyler ISBN: 0789010143 Publisher: Haworth Press Pub. Date: 06 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine by Geoffrey W. C. Hanks, Neil Macdonald, Derek Doyle ISBN: 0192630571 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $98.50 |
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Title: Pain : Clinical Manual by Margo McCaffery, Chris Pasero ISBN: 081515609X Publisher: Mosby Pub. Date: 15 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $46.95 |
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Title: A Clinician's Guide to Palliative Care by George Jesse, Md. Taylor, Jerome E. Kurent ISBN: 0632046422 Publisher: Blackwell Science Inc Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Handbook of Palliative Care in Cancer by Alexander Waller, Nancy L. Caroline ISBN: 0750672048 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Medical Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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