Speaking of Cancer: A Clinician's Guide to Having Better Cancer Conversations - Couverture souple

Helft, Paul R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0197861075 ISBN 13 : 9780197861073

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2027

Synopsis

Speaking of Cancer is a practical and thoughtful guide to one of the most challenging aspects of oncology practice: how we talk with patients and their families. While cancer treatment continues to advance scientifically, the conversations that surround diagnosis, prognosis, uncertainty, and end-of-life care remain deeply human, complex, and consequential. Yet few clinicians receive sustained training in how to navigate these moments. Drawing on more than two decades of clinical experience and grounded in the communication literature, this book introduces a structured framework for understanding what the author calls "communicative tasks" - the relational, informational, and emotional work embedded in every clinical encounter. Through carefully examined scenarios and concrete examples of language that can be adapted in practice, the book addresses new patient visits, discussions of prognosis, fear of recurrence, shared decision-making, hospice conversations, and the everyday interactions that shape trust and therapeutic alliance. Rather than offering rigid scripts, Speaking of Cancer provides clinicians with sample scripts honed over years of practice, along with conceptual tools and practical strategies that can be tailored to their own voice. It demonstrates that skillful communication improves patient understanding, strengthens relationships, and sustains clinicians' sense of meaning in their emotionally demanding work. In cancer care, communication is not peripheral to treatment; it is one of its most powerful and enduring forms. Having better cancer conversations is not separate from treatment; it is one of our most powerful clinical tools.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul R. Helft, MD, completed his undergraduate degree in general studies in the humanities and his medical degree at the University of Chicago. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine, and fellowships in hematology/oncology and clinical medical ethics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Helft joined the faculty of the Indiana University School of Medicine in 2001, where he is currently the Allan S. Manalan and Diane K. Werth Professor Emeritus of Medicine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2027
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0197861075
• ISBN 13: 9780197861073
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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