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For families - friends of patients with cancer

🇬🇷  In GREEK  🇬🇷

Original title:

“Δικαίωμα στην Αλήθεια”


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  • a. Short Description:
    Provocative book reveals widespread abuse of cancer patients' rights
  • b. Synopsis on blurb:
    Should each and every patient be aware of his / her own true diagnosis of cancer or not? If so, then Who should break the bad news to the patient? HOW? How much of the truth can a patient handle?

    Our country suffers from a festering wound, a contemporary national curse similar to the ancient “Cylonian Affair” curse (or moral taint): Unawareness of the truth by the very person who is directly involved and affected.

    Arguments along with counterexamples are listed, inspired from the thirty-two-year long clinical experience of the author, in favour of the patient’s Right to know:
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    ► for Trust,
    ► for Protection from charlatans and exploitation,
    ► for understanding that Sacrifices are sometimes required to achieve cure
    ► for well–founded Hope and
    ► for Lack of fear of the unknown.

    The book:

    ► addresses close family members of cancer patients: it is usually theirs, the burden of deciding whether or not to have their relative informed. The book offers them supportive advice.

    ► also offers Stimuli for thought to every philanthropist who cares for patients suffering from cancer or similar disease: physician, nurse, psychologist, priest, friend… They are all urged not to resort to the easy way of facile lies; lying ultimately leads only to tribulations.

    ► strikes a blow at our national hypocrisy that pretends to ostensibly “avoid causing sadness to the patient.” It is, however, this very patient whom hypocrisy troubles in an utterly unashamed fashion; countless aspects of these troubles are exposed in order to be banned from clinical practice once and for all.
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  • c. Topics discussed / Chapters :
    •  1. When Bad News Breaks
    •  2. Family Members Who Resort to Deception
    •  3. Potentially Evil Intent or “Malice”
    •  4. The Truth, Ultimately, Is Always Revealed
    •  5. “Depression” is one thing. “Sorrow” is another.
    •  6. Informed Consent
    •  7. Compliance and Follow–Up
    •  8. Half–truths, Evasion & Jargon
    •  9. WHO should disclose the Diagnosis
    • 10. HOW to break bad news: 1st session
    • 11. HOW: 2nd & 3rd Sessions
    • 12. HOW: 4th (last) session
    • 13. Medical Documentation, Staging, Treatments
    • 14. A Word of Caution !
    • 15. How much of the truth
    • 16. Opiates – Painkillers and other medication
    • 17. Life expectancy
    • 18. For Physicians και and other health–carers

    Almost every chapter of the book is divided into two sessions:

    ► clinical counterexample
    ► continuation of the chapter (arguments etc.)

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Lectures – Events :
  • Lecture on Mar. 30, 2017 during a Psychiatry Conference at ‘The Macedonia Palace hotel’ in Thessaloniki, Greece. “Neoplasms: the human, the disease, the treatment” round table.
  • Lecture on Dec. 17, 2016 during an Oncology Conference at ‘The Macedonia Palace hotel’ in Thessaloniki, Greece. “The psycho–social aspect of cancer” round table.
  • Presentation of the book on Nov. 12, 2016 at the Cancer Patients' Association of Macedonia & Thrace, 96 Agh. Dimitriou Str., Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • Lecture on Nov. 05, 2016 during a Medical Conference at ‘The Macedonia Palace hotel’ in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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