SAN ANGELO, Texas — Dr. Fazlur Rahman, a former oncologist and adjunct professor in Angelo State University’s Department of Biology, has published a new book titled “Our Connected Lives: Caring for Cancer places in Rural Texas,” published by Texas Tech University. Published by the bureau.
Based on Lerman’s 35 years of experience as a medical oncologist in San Angelo, the book includes Lerman’s personal reflections on storytelling, cancer science, and making medical decisions that treat patients as whole people. It is filled with a thoughtful story that combines conflict and conflict. Not just as a sick person.
Luhrmann tells the informative stories of five cancer patients with the grace of a born storyteller. Although he has come a long way with cancer, he is still living his daily life. Enduring the devastating burden of the exorbitant cost of cancer drugs. Overcoming the vagaries of old age and dealing with malignant tumors. and the patient’s desire for dignity.
Our Connected Lives is Luhrmann’s second book, following 2016’s The Temple Road: A Doctor’s Journey. He has also contributed op-eds and other articles on medical, ethical, social, and scientific issues to numerous prestigious publications, including The New Yorker. Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Harvard Review, Lancet, Newsweek, Short Stories International. More information can be found on his website: fazlurrahmanmd.com.
Our Connected Lives is currently available for purchase through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Texas Tech University Press, and other online and independent bookstores. Mr. Luhrmann will also be holding a book signing at Old Town Books, 506 S. Chadbourne Street, downtown, on Thursday, November 14th from 5-7 p.m., where you can also get a copy of his book. It becomes possible.
In addition to his role as a faculty member teaching medical humanities and ethics at ASU, while a member of the West Texas Medical Associates (WTMA), Mr. Luhrmann was the director of ASU’s science lectureship honoring Dr. Roy E. Moon. He also contributed to its founding and was selected as a speaker. committee. He is also a senior director at UT Austin and a member of the advisory board of the Charles E. Cheever Jr. Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Mr. Rahman, who is from what is now Bangladesh, graduated from Daulatpur University and received his medical degree from Dhaka Medical College. He completed an internship at St. John’s Hospital in New York, a junior residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center-Queens General Hospital in New York, and a senior residency and fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Oncology, the American Board of Hematology, and the American Board of Internal Medicine.
