I'm thrilled that this book is available to cancer survivors. I only wish I'd had a copy 10 years ago when I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
--Jill Eikenberry, actor and breast cancer advocate

""A valuable resource for survivors.""
--Peari Moore, RN, MN, FAAN, Executive Director, Oncology Nursing Society

""A Cancer Survivor's Almanac is a clearly written, sensitive, and sensible guide to surviving with cancer. This almanac can help you more comfortably and knowledgeably take charge of your life with cancer.""
--David Spiegel, MD, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, and author, "Living Beyond Limits" (Ballantine, 1994)

""This indispensible quide provides helpful information and much-needed support that will improve the quality of life for cancer survivors.""
--Richard Klausner, MD, Director, National Cancer Institute

""From the time of its discovery and for the balance of life, an individual diagnosed with cancer is a survivor.""
--National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Charter

"A Cancer Survivor's Almanac: Charting Your Journey" serves as a guide to help survivors, caregivers, families, and friends chart a survivorship journey. Written by the survivors and professionals who founded the cancer survivorship movement, A Cancer Survivor's Almanac provides essential up-to-date, practical information on: The latest information in medical diagnosis, treatment, pain control, and long-term and late effects of cancer treatmentHealth insurance -- how to find and keep it under the most current laws (including the federal health reform law which takes effect in 1997)Tips on how to find and work with the best doctors and hospitalsUnderstanding the risks and benefits of unconventional treatmentsHow to win the battle against job discriminationClear answers to legal and financial questionsHow to cope with the personal and social impact of cancerCommunicating with family and friends, including dealing with grief and lossThe benefits of peer support, with tips on starting your own peer-support networkAdvocating for yourself and othersIn addition, an expanded Resource Section lists hundreds of organizations and agencies that offer help regarding specific cancer-related issues and explains how to find cancer information through the Internet. Cancer survivors and their caregivers, families, and friends share their greatest gifts to today's survivors-- the power of knowledge. No cancer journey is easy. This book, however, provides the information, understanding, support, and resources to help dispel the myths and improve the quality of life with, through, and beyond cancer. All royalties from the sales of this book benefit the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.

Healers Abroad:Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS calls for the federal government to create and fund the United States Global Health Service (GHS) to mobilize the nationA-A'A1/2s best health care professionals and other highly skilled experts to help combat HIV/AIDS in hard-hit African, Caribbean, and Southeast Asian countries. The dearth of qualified health care workers in many lowincome nations is often the biggest roadblock to mounting effective responses to public health needs. The proposalA-A'A1/2s goal is to build the capacity of targeted countries to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic over the long run. The GHS would be comprised of six multifaceted components. Full-time, salaried professionals would make up the organizationA-A'A1/2s pivotal A-A'A1/2service corps,A-A'A1/2 working side-by-side with other colleagues already on the ground to provide medical care and drug therapy to affected populations while offering local counterparts training and assistance in clinical, technical, and managerial areas.

"Mullan gets it right! His 'big doctors' are the unsung heroes of American medicine. Their stories --and they are great stories--tell us where we have to go to build a medical system that will work for everybody. And I mean everybody - the CEO, the family on welfare, you, and me."--Studs Terkel, author of "Working, The Good War, and "Coming of Age

""Big Doctoring is a unique undertaking. We hear people in the frontlines of medicine tell us their story, and tell it in their own voices. In these pages, which are a joy to read, we find proof that medicine is, and always will be, both art and science."--Abraham Verghese, M.D., author of "The Tennis Partner

""Big Doctoring is an extraordinarily compelling effort by a dedicated and idealistic physician -- who offers us, through the voices of his informants, a clearly written narrative that tells of a profession's contemporary challenges and difficulties. Here is documentary work of the most instructive and telling kind -- a nation's healers become witnesses and teachers for us readers."--Robert Coles, M.D.

"At a time when both doctors and patients in record numbers abhor the shadowy mass of gloomy economics and gruesome bureaucracy that has overtaken American medicine, Mullan shows us a path out of the darkness. And his is a desperately needed map, as physicins and nurses are now quitting in droves, tens of millions of Americans are losing their health insurance, and millions more, though insured, are forbidden treatments and primary care that could save their lives. Bravo!"--Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague and "Betrayal of Trust

This anthology brings together the personal stories of patients, physicians, policy makers, and others whose writings humanize discussions and deliberations about health policy.

Drawn from the popular "Narrative Matters" column in the journal Health Affairs, the essays epitomize the policy narrative, a new genre of writing that explores health policy through the expression of personal experiences. Forty-six articles focus on such topics as the hard financial realities of medical insurance, AIDS, assisted suicide, marketing drugs, genetic engineering, organ transplants, and ethnic and racial disparities in the health care system. The narratives raise ethical and moral issues that are being studied in many of our nation's medical schools.

This compelling collection provides important insight into the human dimensions of health care and health policy.