My Voice - A Physician's Personal Experience With Throat Cancer
Author: Itzhak Brook, MD
 The book captures three years of the author's life following a diagnosis of throat cancer and tells the story of how he faces and deals with medical and surgical treatments and adjusts to life afterwards. As a physician with lifelong experience in caring for patients, the author shares his insights and perspective on these events as he undergoes the effects of a severe illness through the eyes of a patient. He endures the consequences of radiation, surgeries, and prolonged hospitalizations. He confronts medical errors, discrimination following loss of his vocal chords, and struggles to regain his ability to speak again and find new meaning to his life. The author shares his anxieties, frustrations, failures, and ultimate adjustment to life with continuous uncertainty about the future.
Through the author's insights, health care professionals may become more aware of what their patients actually experience, and patients who face similar hardships may find out how to cope with them.
Visit Dr. Brook's blog for more information.
 (Members of the University of Southern California Head and Neck Cancer Support Group with the book at their February 4, 2012 meeting.)
Rescue Breathing for Laryngectomees and Neck Breathers
Dr. Brook has also prepared a short (12 minute) video about rescue breathing for laryngectomees. The video is available in the form of a DVD and can also be seen on YouTube.
It can be very important for interested neck breathers to show the DVD to their anesthesiologists (prior to surgery or procedures such as colonoscopy) and their local emergency departments and EMTs. The DVD was prepared for Dr. Brook by a grant from Atos Medical, who will mail copies of it to those interested. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the DVD, please contact Atos Medical (information below).
Atos Medical
Phone: 1.800.217.0025
E-mail: info.us@atosmedical.com
For multiple copies going to one source (such as a voice club, etc.) please contact Enrique Kadile directly:
Enrique Kadile
Direct Phone: 414-921-0604
E-mail: enrique.kadile@atosmedical.com
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