The Elephant in the Room [electronic resource] : Stories About Cancer Patients and their Doctors / by Jonathan Waxman.
Publisher: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012Description: XIX, 264 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780857298959
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- R-RZ

Rick's Big Adventure -- All My Trials -- Snake Oil and Chips -- Smoker's Cough -- Conference with Counsel -- Coming Through -- Here's Harry -- Why Me? -- How Do They Know What I've Got? -- Doctors and Cancer: Firewall.
The Elephant in the Room is a collection of real life short stories about cancer patients and their doctors. These stories comfort and entertain, inform and engage, and are a treat to read. With humour and empathy, Jonathan Waxman explores the human side of cancer.