The Elephant in the Room : Stories About Cancer Patients and Their Doctors

The Elephant in the Room is a collection of short stories that creatively communicate the cancer patient’s journey. The stories, based on real-life accounts, are built around the idiosyncratic relationships between patients and their doctors. Using humor, empathy and wisdom, Jonathan Waxman explores the very human side of cancer as well as providing expert commentary on the clinical aspects of diagnosis and therapy of this disease. These stories comfort and entertain, inform and engage, and are a treat to read for anyone whose life has been affected by cancer. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Rick’s Big Adventure....Pages 1-39 All My Trials....Pages 41-77 Fish Ate My Cancer....Pages 79-113 Smoker’s Cough....Pages 115-153 Conference With Counsel....Pages 155-183 Coming Through....Pages 185-208 Here’s Henry....Pages 209-231 Why Me?....Pages 233-241 How Do They Know What I’ve Got?....Pages 243-253 Doctors and Cancer: Firewall....Pages 255-264 Back Matter....Pages 265-265 The Elephant in the Room is a collection of real life short stories about cancer patients and their doctors.¡ These stories comfort and entertain, inform and engage, and are a treat to read. With humour and empathy, Jonathan Waxman explores the human side of cancer Annotation This is a collection of short stories that creatively communicate the cancer patient's journey. The stories, based on real-life accounts, are built around the idiosyncratic relationships between patients and their doctors