One More Mountain to Climb: A Doctor Battles Cancer
This is a work in progress, drafted and under revision, looking for a publisher. It chronicles my experiences as a physician with cancer and what I learned about being a physician and a patient from my experiences with a bone marrow (stem cell) transplant. Several of the chapters are linked here. Any comments or suggestions would be welcome:
Alternate Title: A Helicopter Named Icarus:
Essays on Health, Healing, Medicine and Spirituality
Table of Contents
Part I - The Cancer Odyssey
- The Drama of the Diagnosis
- Talking about Cancer
- The Early Rounds: Low-Dose Chemotherapy
- Obsessive Defenses
Letter from Aunt Mary
- High Dose War Stories
Ithaca by Constantine Cavafy
- The Rescue
- Recovery
Zen Thought
Part II - Lessons from Cancer