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• Title:The patient from hell : how I worked with my doctors to get the best of modern medicine and how you can too / Stephen H. Schneider, with Janica Lane.
  
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• Author/Creator:Schneider, Stephen Henry.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Lane, Janica.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2005.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QZ201 .S34 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Schneider, Stephen Henry--Health.
  Cancer--Patients--Biography.
  Cancer--Patients--Medical care.
  Patient advocacy.
  
• Edition:1st Da Capo Press ed.
  
• Description:xx, 300 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:"A Merloyd Lawrence Book."
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780738210254 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0738210250 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Preface : I'm just a patient - doesn't the doctor know best?
  Ch. 1. "But doctor, it takes three tests to find the bottom"
  Ch. 2. This better not be serious - I've got a plane to catch
  Ch. 3. Whew! the tests are negative, and I've got a plane to catch
  Ch. 4. Taking my lumps : biopsy blues
  Ch. 5. "Once per lethal disease" : coping with chemo
  Ch. 6. "How can you know I'm in remission?"
  Ch. 7. What's so special about fifty-five?
  Ch. 8. Graduation to the bone marrow unit
  Ch. 9. Zap it to me : staring into a Hiroshima-dose of radiation
  Ch. 10. Hospital arrest
  Ch. 11. My re-birthday
  Ch. 12. How much risk is too much?
  Ch. 13. Can't I stay another day?
  Ch. 14. Darth Vader in pink
  Ch. 15. delicate balance
  Ch. 16. Size matters
  Ch. 17. "In cancer, perfect is important"
  Ch. 18. "I think your kidneys did you a favor"
  Ch. 19. successful partnership
  Ch. 20. You and your docs : allies, not adversaries
  Afterword : a caregiver's journey.