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Information
for the Asking: Questions to Help You Get the Information You Need from
Your Healthcare Providers (ALCASE)
Excellent ALCASE guide addresses issues related to patient-physician communication.
Topics include: identifying your personal decision- making style, finding
an advocate, and assessing your information needs. Provides a lists of
questions to ask when selecting a new physician, when evaluating your
physician's bedside manner, prior to and after testing, about treatment
options, and about clinical trials.
Preparing
for Your First Oncology Consultation (Oncolink)
Describes the different types of oncologists that patients see for
evaluation and treatment. Offers a checklist of things patients can do
to prepare for an oncology consultation that can make the experience easier.
[11/01]
Art of
Oncology: Setting Goals to Maintain Hope (Journal of
Clinical Oncology)
by Jamie H. Von Roenn and Charles F. von Gunten
v.21, no.3 Journal of Clinical Oncology (February 2003):
570-574
Interesting and helpful article written for practicing oncologists
about how to establish a doctor-patient relationship that allows patients
to maintain hope in the face of a deadly illness. Using a case of a man
with advanced lung cancer, the authors illustrate an approach to decision-making
that promotes hope. While this article is written from the perspective
of a physician, it contains advice and information that patients can use
in relationships with their own physicians. It would be a good article
for patients to bring to their oncologists to initiate discussion of the
important issues of hope, communication and the doctor-patient relationship.
[2/03]
The
Language of Cancer (Intelihealth)
Explains common cancer terminology that your doctor may use. Stresses
the importance of asking your doctor for an explanation when you don't
understand a word or term he or she uses. Registration required for free
access to Intelihealth. [2/04]
Organizing
Your Cancer Care (cancer.net)
Offers suggestions on how to best organize your cancer care so that
you will be able to gain control and make decisions in a calm and timely
way. Topics include: how to file paperwork, how to organize for medical
appointments, and how to organize your finances. [8/04]
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