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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221270424
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 270
Size : 135 x 215 mm
Bad Blood

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Release date : 19/10/2023
We think we know what blood is. The world expert in haematology and his unique patient explain it differently. The battle against worst has begun
For the first time in this book, a doctor and his patient both recite their united struggle. On the 4th December 2017, Professor Mohamad Mohty, a leading expert in haematology, was presented with Elisabeth Schemla, a cancer patient with incurable cancer of the blood. The first chemotherapy sessions having failed,... For the first time in this book, a doctor and his patient both recite their united struggle. On the 4th December 2017, Professor Mohamad Mohty, a leading expert in haematology, was presented with Elisabeth Schemla, a cancer patient with incurable cancer of the blood. The first chemotherapy sessions having failed, her prognosis was poor. So the doctors offered her to enter an international trial protocol. She accepted to be a guinea pig. From then on a total trust between the patient and «her doctor» was established. Together, they will defeat the battle of blood. The same blood that once took Professor Mothy’s mother. From that moment, he then swore to devote his life to it and to defeat it. With sensitivity, he demonstrates how fast research is going and how new treatments are revolutionising the therapeutic perspective. Between the two partners, it is a permanent negotiation between clinical necessity and existential comfort. She describes how her emotional, professional and social life has been turned upside down; she not only wants to live, but live well. He wants to save her and for her to live the best life possible. Thus, for the past six years, against the backdrop of hospital decay and the covid pandemic, they detail what they have been going through; trial after trial, but also the immense progress that they have experienced. This couple allows us to enter into their daily lives, their questions, their discoveries and their decisions, in which so many patients and doctors will recognize themselves
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EAN : 9782221270424
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 270
Size : 135 x 215 mm
Robert Laffont