Tell Me the Truth : Conversations with My Patients about Cancer, Life and Death

By Ranjana Srivastava

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About the book

‘In this age of modern technology, what patients and their relatives increasingly want from doctors is a return of the old touch, the touch of healing and humanity that seemed to exist in abundance when there was nothing else the doctor could do.’ What is it like to tell someone ‘I’m afraid you have cancer?’ How do you truthfully answer the question ‘How long have I got?’ How do you sustain hope and preserve human dignity at the end of a life? What do you do when a patient’s children are the same age as your own, and her illness is a daily reminder of your mortality? How do you tell a family that their loved one has not survived? These are just some of the questions that confront oncologist Ranjana Srivastava every day as she treats cancer patients. With honesty and empathy, Ranjana takes us right inside the world of medicine, where we witness the intimacies of life and death, and the unexpected truths that can emerge from the briefest encounters. While these experiences take place in an Australian hospital, the issues Ranjana and her patients confront-of pain, loss and death-are universal. Medicine may not always provide a cure, but these conversations between an oncologist and her patients will help and heal in ways that are profound and life-affirming. Finally, Tell Me the Truth is an acknowledgement of the incredible courage and dignity of ordinary people as they find an extraordinary grace in confronting cancer, life and death.

Pages: 320

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Ranjana Srivastava

Dr Ranjana Srivastava is a medical oncologist, Fulbright scholar, award-winning author and a columnist for The Guardian. After an upbringing in Bihar, India, and the United States, she graduated from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, with first-class honours. Ranjana is the winner of the Monash University Distinguished Alumni award and practices in the Australian public hospital system.Ranjana has written widely on the subject of medicine and humanity and ethics. She publishes frequently in the New England Journal of Medicine and her work has also appeared in The Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Time, The Week, The Age and several other publications including Australia’s Best Science Writing. She has won the Cancer Council Victoria award for outstanding writing as well as the Gus Nossal Prize for Global Health writing.Her first book, Tell Me the Truth: Conversations with My Patients about Life and Death, was short listed for a major literary award. Her second book, Dying for a Chat: The Communication Breakdown Between Doctors and Patients, won the Australian Human Rights Commission Literature Prize. Ranjana’s interest in explaining and demystifying medicine to the general public has led to a regular presence on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation network. Her roles as a medical volunteer have included working with the Asylum SeekerResource Centre in Melbourne, with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta and in post-tsunami Maldives.Ranjana lives in Melbourne with her family.