Shulamith Kreitler

2019

The Patient Behind the Disease

The appearance at the present time of a book with the title Psycho-Oncology for the Clinician: The Patient Behind the Disease requires some kind of explanation. One could wonder why is a book about Psycho-Oncology written at a time when cancer care is becoming increasingly complex as is and, on top of it, expensive at a barely imaginable degree. Neither national institutions nor private patients can cover all expenses. Do we need another target of expenses?