A conversation with my personal oncologist

Fam Syst Health. 2019 Dec;37(4):344-346. doi: 10.1037/fsh0000445.

Abstract

This article describes a conversation between a father diagnosed with cancer and his son, who is an oncologist. The father has turned to his son for medical advice and the son subsequently becomes his father's "personal oncologist." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Publication types

  • Personal Narrative
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Back Pain / etiology
  • Back Pain / psychology
  • Bone Neoplasms / complications
  • Bone Neoplasms / psychology
  • Family Relations
  • Fathers / psychology*
  • Humans
  • Intergenerational Relations
  • Male
  • Oncologists / psychology*