Telling Their Stories, Telling Our Stories

@article{Madjar2007TellingTS,
  title={Telling Their Stories, Telling Our Stories},
  author={Irena Madjar and Lea Kacen and Samuel Ariad and Jim Denham},
  journal={Qualitative Health Research},
  year={2007},
  volume={17},
  pages={428 - 441}
}
There is currently very little research on how physicians respond to patients with cancer who decide to forgo or stop medically recommended “curative” therapy. The purpose of this article is to report on a qualitative study with 12 oncology specialists in Israel and Australia that addresses this question. The findings indicate that physicians tend to construct patients and their decisions in terms of mutually exclusive categories that focus on curability of the disease, rationality of the… 
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