Doctor, What if it Were Your Mother: Hope, Faith and Reason at the End of Life (Hardback or Cased Book)

Dr. Victor Vogel is an oncologist who has been caring for women with breast cancer and doing clinical research in breast oncology for thirty years. He has sustained life-threatening and disabling illnesses. He has endured the death of his mother when he was a young oncologist and wrestled with the limits of medical care. A lifelong Christian, he has struggled with the challenges of answering questions about suffering and death for his patients, his family, and his friends. He is an ordained Presbyterian elder and a member of the board of directors of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He has edited two medical textbooks, is the author of hundreds of professional articles and editorials, was a medical school professor for twenty-two years, and has traveled and lectured on four continents. He has appeared on national news broadcasts and has been quoted in the New York Times. He has been married for thirty-six years to a pediatrician, is the father of two children, and has two grandchildren.