Our Connected Lives: Caring for Cancer Patients in Rural Texas
Language: English
Published by Texas Tech University Press (edition ), 2024
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- Title
- Our Connected Lives: Caring for Cancer Patients in Rural Texas
- Author
- Rahman, Fazlur
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press (edition )
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1682832228
- ISBN 13
- 9781682832226
Over a 35-year career, Rahman poured himself into not just taking care of his patients' challenging medical needs but learning from them, getting to know their lives, their families, and the circumstances that made each patient unique.
He narrates the instructive stories of five cancer patients: surviving against all odds; walking a long path with cancer and still making a daily life; bearing the crushing burdens of the exorbitant costs of cancer drugs, sometimes dictating a decision either to save one's own life or leaving enough for your family to live on; navigating the vagaries of old age and coping with malignancy; and patients' desire for dignity, dignity that we all want, rich or poor.
These compassionate tales are a blend of storytelling, cancer science, and Rahman's personal reflections and struggles on making medical decisions that treat a patient as a whole person, not just as a person with a disease.
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About the Author
born and brought up in what is now Bangladesh. After his medical education in
Dhaka, New York, and Houston, he practiced cancer medicine for thirty-five years
in San Angelo, Texas. He is an adjunct professor of biology (medical humanities
and ethics) at Angelo State University, a senior trustee of Austin College in
Sherman, Texas, and an advisory council member of the Charles E. Cheever
Jr. Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health
Science Center in San Antonio.
His writings on medical, ethical,
social, and scientific issues have appeared in many national and international
publications, including the New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian Weekly, International Herald Tribune, Haaretz, Indian
Express, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Harvard
Review, Short Story International, Dallas
Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Oncologist, and Lancet. His cultural and medical memoir, The Temple Road:
A Doctor's Journey, published in India in 2016, tells about his upbringing
and training years, his move to a new country, and his life and practice in
West Texas. He and his wife, Jahanara (Ara), have lived there for most of their
lives and have raised four children. They love walking in nature and going on
wildflower adventures.
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