Chapter 1
Caring for Patients: Practice and Policy
· Telling Patients the Truth
· Navigating the Medical System’s Choppy Waters
· Providers of Cancer Care – How Goes It?
· Health Care Access, Quality, and Economics in 1932: Ray Lyman Wilbur
· Health Care Policy and the Poor
· “Cancer Refugees”
· Consumer-Directed Health Care
· Patient Consent and Conflicts of Interest
· Trying to Understand Medical Economics
· Planning National Cancer Policy in Croatia
· Ethics and Medical Economics: Rationing Care
Chapter 2
Quality of Cancer Care
· The Quality Waves Are Coming
· The Quality Waves Are Coming – What to Do?
· Assessing the Quality of Cancer Care at the State Level
· Policy Efforts to Improve the Quality of Cancer Care
· The Many Faces of Quality Cancer Care
· Pay for Performance
· Pay for Performance—Dead or Alive?
· Slow Pace of Improvement in the Quality of Medical Care
Chapter 3
Living with Dying
· Dying Patients and the Little Flame
· Why Work in a Hospice?
· Intimations of Mortality
· A Poet Faces Cancer
· My Mother
· My Mother – Final Act
· Mourning and Grieving For Chris
· Death and Grieving Survivors
· Albert and Samuel
Chapter 4
Being a Doctor
· The Rise and Fall of Trust in the Medical Profession
· Oncologists Who Make Me Proud to Be One
· “Concierge Medicine” and Other Trends
· Concierge Medicine Revisited
· Doc-in-a-Drugstore?
· A Doctor’s Values from His Father
· Making an Oncologist -- the Chicago Cubs Factor
· Walker Percy
· William Carlos Williams
· Influential Books
· Protecting Patients from Us
· Dealing with Change in Oncology
· Retirement Adventures
· On Giving Advice and Offering Some
Chapter 5
Medical Ethics and Values
· Conflicts of Interest in Medical Practice
· “The Stonemason” on the Integrity and Sanctity of Work
· Client Billing and Self-Referral
· Are We Single Agents, Double Agents, or Free Agents?
· Econo-Docs in Oncology
· The Role of a Professional Society in Medical Ethics –1
· The Role of a Professional Society in Medical Ethics—2
· Oncology Professional Meetings: Too Big? Too Commercial?
· Uncertainty and Ethics in Clinical Trials – 1
· Uncertainty and Ethics in Clinical Trials – 2
Chapter 6
Leadership in Medicine
· What Makes a Great Leader?
· Leadership of the FDA
· The Five Deadly Sins of Leadership
· Pruning the Rosebush
· Understanding Effective Leadership
Chapter 7
Cancer Research
· Childhood Cancer Research: A Victim of Success and Bureaucracy
· Childhood Cancer: An Orphan of New Drug Development
· NCI’s Cancer Centers Program – A Jewel Needing Polish
· The Transformation of Cancer Research
· A Cautionary Tale
 Foreword by Dr. Young
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