Making Miracles Happen
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ISBN: 0316597880 / Publisher: Little Brown & Co, January 1997
Ten years after he had been given only three months to live, the author shares the inspirational story of his triumph over cancer and reveals how patients everywhere can make their own miracles happen
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Ten years ago, doctors at the Mayo Clinic told thirty-four-year-old Greg Smith that he had an inoperable brain tumor. They gave him three months to live.Today, ten years later, Smith is fit, symptom-free, and managing his tumor with an experimental hormone therapy - living proof that no matter how dire the diagnosis, you don't have to accept a death sentence.In this remarkable book, Smith draws on his own harrowing experiences, and those of other patients who "refused to lie down and die on cue," to show how medical "miracles" are made: from taking control of health care decisions to exploring experimental treatments; from finding the right questions for your doctor to finding the right doctor for your questions; from developing trust in your caregiver to developing faith in yourself; from battling insurance companies to battling the voice in your head that keeps asking, "Why me?"
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