[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:
- WHO must be mentioned in the accompanying text and/or given credit. This item may be under copyright protection. Please ask copyright owner for permission before publishing.
- Copyright Holder:
- World Health Organization; Source: Record; Research date: 20151009
- Extent:
- 1 photoprint.
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101436896 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- A013790
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436896