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Serengeti Press - March 31, 2007 - 3 Comments

The Cancer Chronicles: A Parent’s Journey by Joseph A. Farina

Reviewed by Shane Neilson

I’ve only been a doctor for seven years, but even in that short time it’s happened more than once. What do I mean? On three separate occasions patients or members of a patient’s family have pressed a book into my hands. I’ve met the patient, I’ve met the family; we have discussed the nature of the problem, we have discussed what can and should be done. At this point, I am served with a book. And the manner in which this happens is eerily similar: Read this, they say, and all will be made clear… then you will understand.

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