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The patient doctor: how one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare / Ben Bravery; read by Dr Ben Bravery.

The patient doctor: how one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare / Ben Bravery; read by Dr Ben Bravery.
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ISBN 9781399137690
1399137697
Name Bravery, Ben
Title The patient doctor [electronic resource] : how one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare / Ben Bravery; read by Dr Ben Bravery.
Published Leicester : Ulverscroft, Isis, 2023.
Description 1 online resource.
Notes Downloadable audio file
Complete and unabridged.
Ulverscroft digital uLIBRARY
Performers Read by Dr Ben Bravery.
Summary At the age of twenty-eight, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. But what he didn't expect was how being a patient would make him FEEL. Why hadn't he been better prepared for the vulnerability of lying naked on the radiation table, or the sheer number of tubes coming out of his body after surgery? Why did it feel like an imposition to ask doctors about his pain on their ward rounds? And why did he have to repeat the same information to them over and over again? During his treatment, Ben felt scared, overwhelmed, sometimes invisible and often alone. As he recovered, it struck him that he couldn't go back to his former career. He needed a change - and wanted to MAKE a change. He would become a doctor...
Subjects Zoologists -- China -- Biography
Physicians -- Australia -- Biography
Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer
Cancer -- Patients -- Biography
Psychic trauma
Talking books
Genre Autobiographies
eAudiobooks
Added Names Bravery, Ben narrator
Internet Site https://gunnedah.ulverscroftulibrary.com/book/view/9781399137690
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