Fall/Winter
2001-2002

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Review:
Mind, Body, and Soul; A Guide to Living with Cancer- By Nancy Hassett Dahm.   Dahm is a registered nurse who has cared for over 400 cancer patients. The information provided here is invaluable-and very, very honest. On doctors prescribing for the relief of pain: "The time has long since passed for polite requests and respectful submissions. What the hell are you doctors doing out there?" Breast cancer breakthroughs, gene therapies, and other promising methods of treatment. Dahm is very truthful-she's seen the pain, she's heard the suffering, she's not an uncaring professional. Alternative medicine and cancer, heaven and faith: "For the many facing death in the near future, your prayers will also be answered in the form of courage, faith and strength. Heaven is waiting." From initial symptoms to final death, from early tears to later wisdom. Home care, dying with dignity in your own house. "To me, dying with dignity means sparing me the humiliation of crying out in pain, writhing in bed, and having to beg for help from those who can't or won't help. It means sparing me from the routine of loud hospital noises, indifference, closed doors, and unwelcome remarks from strangers." Mind, Body, and Soul is an important work, a book that not only advances our knowledge of cancer but brings the technical expertise of one professional woman's hope-simple hope-to those who are-simply-dying.

God bless.