The Best News About Radiation Therapy: Everything You Need to Know About Your Treatment
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Dr. Carol Kornmehl guides patients through this intimidating process, explaining each step of the therapy and the results they can expect from there treatment…. More >>
The Best News About Radiation Therapy: Everything You Need to Know About Your Treatment
5 comments Thursday 19 Aug 2010 | admin | General
Praiseworth for its navigability, coverage, and concision, Best News falls short of offering the solace its title suggests. Consisting largely of definitions-in-bold and coldly laid out graphs, data trumps warmth. Its patient tetimonies, while effective in showing diversity of symptoms, do little to humanize the text.
Once the aesthetic is gotten past, however, one finds some myths about radiation addressed and a few intriguing stats–should generally be used as a handbook, not a comforter.
Rating: 3 / 5
I was really impressed…Dr. Kornmehl’s book was really concise, easy to read, and very informative, even to someone like myself, who has never had any experience with radiation procedures.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Best News About Radiation Therapy takes a very open, personal approach to making its readers feel comfortable. The author affirms the anxieties that the reader confronts, thus making the reader realize that it is normal to be so scared. That alone makes the reader feel better.
By methodically and humanistically going through the entire sequence of events a person encounters in a radiation therapy environment, the author demystifies and destigmatizes radiation treatment. The author’s upbeat approach is infectious! The inspirational quotes that accompany each chapter cheer the reader. I salute the author for writing this informative book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Besides being easy to read and understand, the virtual tour of radiation therapy via the clear photos in the book rendered “Best News” an asset. There are no boring graphs or tables, just reader friendly information.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dr. Kornmehl uses lots of clinical vignettes througout The Best News, to which people can relate and derive a sense of light through the darkness.
Rating: 5 / 5