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Fearless Books Review by Nancy Hassett Dahm Mind, Body, and Soul A Guide to Living with Cancer Imagine that you're living with a cancer diagnosis and receiving regular treatment on an outpatient basis. Your physician is okay, but you don't see that much of him; he orders lots of tests that you have to endure and adjusts your medication without always fully explaining why, or what the possible effects on your daily quality of life might be. While you certainly couldn't get by without him, the person you really look forward to seeing on your hospital visits is the friendly, middle-aged, somewhat quirky RN who's been attending cancer patients like yourself for years. She's both warm and businesslike, neither ignoring your aches and anxieties nor making too much of them; whenever the going really gets tough, she always pops out with a quote from Marcus Aurelius that somehow puts your struggle in perspective. She's a walking pharmaceutical encyclopaedia, and she'll tell you everything you want to know about the drugs you're taking. Not only that, she's been leading a crusade in your clinic for a sensible pain management program, a concern that somehow slipped the attention of the higher-paid oncologists on staff. She's the one who got you in a helpful support group - the one where she occasionally drops in to do a reading of some pithy Socratic dialogues - and she's the one who's whispered in your ear about the latest alternative-medicine approach that might be worth checking out. And you know that, God forbid, if you find yourself facing a terminal diagnosis, she's the one you'll want sitting on a corner of the bed, helping you make sense of life's most profound transition Now imagine that nurse between the covers of a book with eleven resource-packed appendices, and you've got Nancy Hassett Dahm's Mind, Body, and Soul. If you know of anyone whose cancer-management program is lacking a caring, knowledgeable, and philosophical "bedside manner," this book is everything the doctor didn't order - but should have. - P.MILLER 5-7/03 Click Here
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