. Edition: "The time of a cancer," poignant testimony of a doctor diagnosed with breast cancer

Anesthesiologist and suffering from cancer of the breast, Sylvie Froucht Hirsch sharing time a book his experience and thoughts on the disease and its status change from doctor to patient

In "Time for a cancer - a chronic medical illness," Sylvie Froucht Hirsch, anesthesiologist at Rothschild Ophthalmological Foundation (Paris) provides a poignant and often funny testimony of his encounter with "little nasty" that cancer within her breast and against which it will have to fight.

As written in the preface Dr. Edwige Bourstyn, oncologist surgeon at St. Louis Hospital (Paris) will be treated as Sylvie, it "chose to be a patient unintelligent 'to trust,' set aside 'the doctor it is. "

Doctor / patient to patient / doctor, she finally kept the status of sick, though, as it will be appreciated later, his "medical knowledge [him] to anticipate and apprehend situations without the need for explanation or ask the nursing staff. "

From this painful experience, she came out on top, it believes it has enriched now considering it "a doctor with experience of patient with certainty being sick, even though surrounded, it is to be alone . Alone with the fear of the future. "

With simple words, it describes perfectly the feeling sick, pitting which is not accustomed to the importance of the environment which, however, "can do wrong in wanting to do good." She frequently cites philosophers whose ideas resonate with hers, as in relation to the death at the time.

All stages of disease and healing and all issues faced by women with breast cancer are discussed, often with humor and sarcasm. We also discover his relatives, real bulwark against the disease, as her husband, Emmanuel Hirsch, philosopher and director of the ethics area of Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, his family, his friends and his surgeon oncologist, Dr. Bourstyn , became an ally against cancer.

Life lesson, this book is aimed at both women with breast cancer at the entourage of a patient.