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Book Reviews

December 18, 2011

Tell Me the Truth

Tell me The Truth: conversations with my patients about life and death
Author: Ranjana Srivastava
Publisher: Penguin/Viking, 2010
ISBN: 9780670074402
320pp
RRP $32.95

This is a rare book and the author is a rare physician.  Ranjana Srivastava is an oncologist working in Melbourne.  She questions what she does and how she does it and strives to relate to her patients and their families with honesty and compassion.  The title of the book reflects what many patients ask of her.

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