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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: I believe that only cancer survivors can make a pertinent review this book.I strongly recommend it to anyone who is a cancer survivor, or anybody who wants to try to understand a friend or relative who has had cancer. The author, Wendy Harpham, is a cancer survivor. She is also a medical doctor. She writes from both perspectives. This makes her book not only informative, but also full of empathy. It made me cry. It made me laugh. It made me realize that there is "a life after cancer" and that, as Wendy suggests, I can "make it a good one."
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Summary: I Found This Book Very Helpful
Review: I found it very helpful to have a resource such as this book by Wendy Harpham when I finished my cancer treatments. The book helped me understand what I was feeling and why. I am now 3 years out and have just finished rereading the book. It has helped me, again, in my "new life" after cancer. I found that the book accurately explained the emotions I had been confronting. I highly recommend the book and believe that her book is a must read for any cancer survivor who has finished treatment, especially if you have just completed treatment, but even if it was years ago.
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Summary: I Found This Book Very Helpful
Review: I found it very helpful to have a resource such as this book by Wendy Harpham when I finished my cancer treatments. The book helped me understand what I was feeling and why. I am now 3 years out and have just finished rereading the book. It has helped me, again, in my "new life" after cancer. I found that the book accurately explained the emotions I had been confronting. I highly recommend the book and believe that her book is a must read for any cancer survivor who has finished treatment, especially if you have just completed treatment, but even if it was years ago.
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: The font Harper Collins selected for her 2nd edition headings, and Contents, as well as the paper selection I received in the soft cover ed. are distractive. I found myself ignoring them. This book might be more convincing if "my cancer" was used less;it is out of sync with the cut and dry medical model that comprises about 83% of the pages. Her experience does not touch on the aspects that to begin a new life one must come to recognize that it is NOT a welcomed disease, one must refuse ownership, and it is augmented by our carcinogenic society. It is a journey on which a battle must be fought. Her answers lack the personal approach that she does possess, and instead revert to the "medical model, hence a change in title might be appropriate. The dichotomy lies in "new life" in the title; Wendy stays away from that through her technique, where the 'meat' of this book in relation to the title is in the incomplete Prologue, which could be expanded to everyone's advantage. For example, why can Wendy "never go back to where I was." If we have medical education - we come to realize, as did this author, that writing is healing (as author Margie Davis writes), but Halpham doesn't acknowledge that a cancer experience levels us all; everyone can hug, cry, hurt, and be helped through involvement. Just as one gets closer to the emotional aspects of the author's journey with cancer and its ramifications, zip, off we go into clinical answers. I wonder if a non M.D. could have had this book published? Either the editor did not intend the book for the general public, or did not know how to touch the heart of those on this journey.
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Summary: Or, A Physician's Experience With Cancer May Help You!
Review: The font Harper Collins selected for her 2nd edition headings, and Contents, as well as the paper selection I received in the soft cover ed. are distractive. I found myself ignoring them. This book might be more convincing if "my cancer" was used less;it is out of sync with the cut and dry medical model that comprises about 83% of the pages. Her experience does not touch on the aspects that to begin a new life one must come to recognize that it is NOT a welcomed disease, one must refuse ownership, and it is augmented by our carcinogenic society. It is a journey on which a battle must be fought. Her answers lack the personal approach that she does possess, and instead revert to the "medical model, hence a change in title might be appropriate. The dichotomy lies in "new life" in the title; Wendy stays away from that through her technique, where the 'meat' of this book in relation to the title is in the incomplete Prologue, which could be expanded to everyone's advantage. For example, why can Wendy "never go back to where I was." If we have medical education - we come to realize, as did this author, that writing is healing (as author Margie Davis writes), but Halpham doesn't acknowledge that a cancer experience levels us all; everyone can hug, cry, hurt, and be helped through involvement. Just as one gets closer to the emotional aspects of the author's journey with cancer and its ramifications, zip, off we go into clinical answers. I wonder if a non M.D. could have had this book published? Either the editor did not intend the book for the general public, or did not know how to touch the heart of those on this journey.
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