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Prologue: Medicine as Theatre
1. The Medical Son
2. The Reticent Doctor
3. The Scared Patient
4. The Puppeteer Doctor
5. The Disobedient Patient
6. The Ornery Surgeon
7. The Confused Patient
8. The Interfering Child I
9. The Pushy Patient
10. The Fractured Family
11. The Failed Patient
12. The Shunned Patient
13. The Brave Patient
14. The Interfering Child II
15. The Desperate Couple
16. The Dying Father
Epilogue: The Authentic Doctor
Acknowledgments
Charles Hayter is a physician and award-winning writer
based in Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada and a former associate professor of
radiation oncology at both Queen’s University and the University of
Toronto.
"Interweaving stories of his father's terminal illness and his own
practice as a radiation oncologist, Charles Hayter sheds light on
the hidden world of the interactions between doctors and patients.
This courageous and splendidly written book deserves to be read by
patients, their families, and healthcare professionals." --Philip
C. Hébert, MD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Family and
Community Medicine, University of Toronto, and Author of Good
Medicine and Doing Right
"When you are being treated for cancer, your doctors become the
most important people in your life. Charles Hayter's memoir
humanizes the most technical of cancer specialties and gives us
insight into the physician's side of the story. He is frank about
how the personal plays into the professional as well as his
frustrations with colleagues and the system - an interesting and
refreshing perspective!" --Libby Znaimer, VP News Zoomer Media,
Host of Fight Back with Libby Znaimer and The Zoomer
"With an extraordinary combination of patient cases, personal
anecdotes, and dramatic dialogues, Charles Hayter introduces
readers to the dramatis personae of medicine and cancer care -
patients, doctors, and families - as he tells the story of his
father's cancer diagnosis and death, and his own long journey to an
authentic expression of his identity. Cancer Confidential is as
moving as it is informative and entertaining."--Robert Maunder, MD,
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and Author of
Damaged
"Touching. Deep. Powerful." --Nancy Beal, Communications Consultant
and Author of Alex Tilley: An Endurable Legacy
"The author and I share many things in common, but I was deeply
touched by his acute sensitivity to the emotional dramas of
oncology, which arose not just from his acting training but also
from his experience with close family cancer and death. Fascinating
insights as roles are reversed and emotion takes its place in the
drama of life - and death."--Lord Michael Cashman, Member of House
of Lords of the United Kingdom and Author of One of Them
"All the [medical] world's a stage! In elegant prose, with
Felliniesque flights into whimsical metaphor,
physician-historian-playwright Charles Hayter describes his
encounters with cancer, as a doctor and as a son, and how the
experience changed him as a person. Sensitive to the arrogance and
obfuscation of his clinical colleagues, he advocates for the
underappreciated power of radiation therapy in cancer care and for
truth in all relationships."--Jacalyn M. Duffin, Professor Emerita
and Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine, Queen's University
"There are many books written by surgeons and physicians about
their life in medicine, but none are like this one. Most are
faintly veiled tales of personal heroics, or writings about the
wonders of medicine, but this book stands out as a personal story
that is honest and sometimes raw, of patient challenges and loss,
and an informative story of the place of radiation in modern cancer
care. Charles Hayter is open about the personal pain in his family
relationships, his distressing tensions with both mother and
father, and his eventual recognition and revealing of his gay life.
He could have told the story of radiation oncology and cancer
patients without revealing himself, but that honesty is one of the
powerful appeals of this wonderful book."--Jock Murray, OC, ONS,
MD, FRCPC, MACP, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Medicine, Dalhousie
University
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