[The role of specialists in cancer treatment]

[The role of specialists in cancer treatment]

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Contributor(s):
Schwab, Eric, photographer
Language(s):
English
French
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Cancer Care Facilities
X-Rays
World Health Organization.
Abstract:
Three physicians are examining x-rays. Verso: WHO/11024. France-Cancer. The basic Troika gets to work. In a special issue World Health sets out to show how cancer, the world's second leading cause of death, is being fought. The treatment of cancer varies from one patient to the next; it is no longer the responsibility of a single doctor, but has to be decided jointly by a team. Our photos show how such a team works together at the Gustave Roussy Institute at Villejuif near Paris and how the various specialists each play their part in treating the same patient. As Pierre Denoix, the Director of the VIllejuif Institute, points out, doctors are individualists: " we have to learn to live togther and share our responsibilites. The education we were given did not prepare us for it. This may expalin a number of difficulties, a certain amount of friction and various reactions that become apparnet when, by force of circumstance, the group has to adjust to something new".
Copyright:
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Copyright Information:
World Health Organization; World Health Organization website
Extent:
1 photoprint.
NLM Unique ID:
101436896 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A013790
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436896