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AfterShock: What to Do When the Doctor Gives You--Or Someone You Love--a Devastating Diagnosis
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.696
EAN: 9780802715029
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0802715028
Label: Walker & Company
Manufacturer: Walker & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: January 23, 2007
Publisher: Walker & Company
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Studio: Walker & Company
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Every year millions of Americans are diagnosed with cancer, stroke, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and other life-threatening or life-altering diseases. When faced with a devastating diagnosis people must quickly understand the diagnosis, prognosis, and choose from several treatment options—while still in shock. AfterShock identifies the processes required to respond to a serious diagnosis, regardless of the specific disease.
Social psychologist Gruman offers practical advice in a 10-stage approach to making clear-headed, informed decisions about who to tell and when; how to get a second opinion or find the right doctor and hospital; where to find reliable online information and telephone help-lines about a particular diagnosis and treatment; how to navigate the health care maze; where to turn for support and comfort.
Dr. Gruman not only draws on her expertise in consumer health information and the advice of doctors and nurses, she shares the personal stories of people who have dealt with traumatic diagnoses, including her own experience of having had three different kinds of cancer and a dangerous heart condition. AfterShock is inspiring and empowering, and is an essential companion book to the disease-specific titles that most people with a devastating diagnosis purchase.
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Rating: - Get It Before You Need It!
As the title suggests, this is the book for you if you --- or someone you love --- gets a devastating diagnosis. But don't wait. Reading it before disaster struck was very helpful to me in several ways. It guided me through some thoughts about how I might respond to a bad diagnosis myself, but also prepared me to offer some genuine help to others when they suddenly faced bad news. If I hadn't read it myself, I probably would have been reluctant to share it with a friend at such a sensitive time. ... Read More
Rating:  - After shock, indeed.
You couldn't find an more apt title for a book than this one. My 75 year old mother was recently told that she has cancer. Needless to say we were all in a state of shock. This was not supposed to happen to our mother! My sister had heard about this book. We bought four of them - one for each sister and one for my Mother and Dad. It's been a wonderful resourse for asking questions and for knowing what questions to ask. We've gone to all doctor/oncologist appointments with Mother and they seemed to have ... Read More
Rating: - Watch the Charlie Rose interview & then buy this book
Jessie Gruman, Ph.D., has written an essential reference for just about everyone. She offers a well-informed cushion and roadmap to support what most of us will face quite unprepared--the shock of learning that you or someone you love has a bad diagnosis. Gruman has been there--she's had 4 serious illnesses, including 3 different cancers. She has brought together her own personal experience and her extensive behavioral science and health policy professional knowledge in a very accessible reference. She ... Read More
Rating: - An essential book
This fabulous book should be in everyone's medicine chest because like bandages and aspirin, sooner or later, you're going to need it. Gruman skillfully and sensitively guides the reader through the full spectrum of concerns and activities that characterize the first several weeks after receiving a devastating medical diagnosis. Some of the chapters are devoted to topics you would expect in such a book: how to get a second opinion, how to manage the flood of emotions that spill over you. But others are ... Read More
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