Port in the Storm How to Make a Medical Decision and Live to Tell About It by Cole A. Giller, MD, PhD December 2003 Dear Producer/Reviewer: You’ve just learned you have a medical problem, perhaps a life-changing diagnosis. Your doctor proceeds to rattle off a confusing list of treatment options and a bewildering array of trade-offs. Which do you choose? And how do you decide? In PORT IN THE STORM: How to Make a Medical Decision and Live to Tell About It, Cole Giller, MD, PhD, a board-certified neurosurgeon and Associate Professor at Southwestern Medical School, offers a compassionate and clear helping hand. For starters, he explains that medical decision-making is a human process requiring more than technical knowledge alone. Then he guides you through his unique six-step plan, emphasizing the emotional and practical human aspects of medical decision-making that are so important, yet so often neglected. Using lucid explanations and real-life examples, Dr. Giller shows you not only how to quickly gather, understand and evaluate a bewildering mass of medical information, but also blend it with your personal preferences and beliefs in order to reach decisions that are comfortable and individually meaningful. In his 13 years of neurosurgical practice, Dr. Cole Giller has counseled thousands of patients suffering from neurological illnesses while they make decisions that could determine whether they will live or die. In PORT IN THE STORM, Dr. Giller, a cancer survivor himself, shares his compassion, understanding and medical knowledge to present practical advice on how to make the right decision. Giller received his medical degree from UCLA School of Medicine and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Neuroimaging and is a reviewer for numerous medical journals, including Archives of Neurology, Stroke, Journal of Applied Physiology, and Neurosurgery. PORT IN THE STORM: How to Make a Medical Decision and Live to Tell About It is the only complete field guide for anyone facing a medical decision for themselves or their loved ones. I hope you will consider PORT IN THE STORM for a review or feature article. I will be in touch shortly. Click here to return to book details