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What To Do When The Doctor Gives You--Or Someone You Love--A Devastating Diagnosis
Walker & Company
February 2007
On Sale: January 23, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 0802715028
EAN: 9780802715029
Paperback
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Every year millions of Americans are diagnosed with cancer,
stroke, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and other
life-threatening or life-altering diseases. When faced with
a devastating diagnosis people must quickly understand the
diagnosis, prognosis, and choose from several treatment
options - while still in shock. AfterShock identifies
the processes required to respond to a serious
diagnosis, regardless of the specific disease.
Social psychologist Gruman offers practical advice in a
10-stage approach to making clear-headed, informed decisions
about who to tell and when; how to get a second opinion or
find the right doctor and hospital; where to find reliable
online information and telephone help-lines about a
particular diagnosis and treatment; how to navigate the
health care maze; where to turn for support and comfort.
Dr. Gruman not only draws on her expertise in
consumer health information and the advice of doctors and
nurses, she shares the personal stories of people who have
dealt with traumatic diagnoses, including her own experience
of having had three different kinds of cancer and a
dangerous heart condition. AfterShock is inspiring
and empowering, and is an essential companion book to the
disease-specific titles that most people with a devastating
diagnosis purchase.
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