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Synopsis
Taken from the second edition of "A Women's Decision", this chapter has been bound into a separate manual to cover breast implants and expanders. This work is intended to be of interest to any woman who has had or is contemplating breast implant surgery. By putting the issues into perspective, it aims to sort fact from fiction and help women make informed decisions about their own health care.
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About the Author
Karen Berger, co-author of A Woman's decision: Breast Care, Treatment and reconstruction, is a respected medical writer and publisher who has spent the last 15 years interviewing and surveying women with breast cancer and has lectured widely on women's health, breast cancer, doctor-patient communications and breast reconstruction issues.
Karen is a speaker for the American Cancer Society and has worked extensively with breast cancer support groups throughout th country. She has testified as an expert witness before the FDA, been interviewed on Oprah Winfrey, The MacNeil Leher Report and CNN and has received national coverage in the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, The St Louis Post Dispatch and U.S. News and World Report. This is the only lay person ever to address the American College of Surgerons at their annual congress.
John Bostwick, III, M.D., the world's foremost authority and experts on breast surgery and breast reconstruction. Dr. Bostwick is Chairman and Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, one of the leading departments of Plastic Surgery in the world.
Dr Bostwick has lectured extensively on breast cancer, breast surgery and breast reconstruction and has written over 100 scientific articles and several acclaimed texts on Breast Surgery and Reconstruction.
Review
"...provides a thorough and well-balanced look at the medical and psychological factors involved in selecting and evaluatung breast implants." -- Women's Health Observer, 11/94 Michelle Lassoff
"This book is a resource, a must read not only by women but also by men." -- AORN, July 2000, Brenda Gregory Dawes, Editor
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- PublisherQuality Medical Pub
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0942219619
- ISBN 13 9780942219616
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages30
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