A Family-Systems Approach to the Patient with Cancer |
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| Authors: | Douglas S Rait |
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a Department of Psychiatry Beth Israel, Medical Center Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York |
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| Abstract: | The assumption that family relationships play an important role in the care and well-being of the cancer patient may be overlooked simply because it is so universal. Patients live in families, become sick in families, and receive medical care in families. Indeed, as Griffin (1) has noted, almost all medical treatment eventually becomes the obligation of family members: |
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