Ranjana Srivastava

Ranjana Srivastava OAM is an oncologist and author from Melbourne, Australia.

Born in Canberra, Australia, Srivastava was educated in India, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Her father's occupation as a physicist meant the family moved around the world living near universities; her schooling was mainly in the United States.[1] She received her medical degree from Monash University.[2] In 2004, she won the Fulbright Award, awarded by the University of Chicago.[2]

Srivastava works in the public health system. She says she makes a point of empathizing with her patients and telling them the truth because of her own experience losing twin sons in utero.[3] A regular contributor to the London Guardian newspaper, she has written a number of books, including Tell Me the Truth, Dying for a Chat, So It's Cancer: Now What, and After Cancer: A Guide to Living Well. In Dying for a Chat, she writes that increased medical specialization means that doctors can fail to see the whole picture with risks for patients from a failure of communication.[4]

In 2017, Srivastava received an Order of Australia medal, (OAM), for her role in oncology and improving doctor-patient communication.[5] She received the Australian Human Rights Award in 2013.

Works

  • Srivastava, Ranjana (2010), Tell me the truth : conversations with my patients about life and death, Viking, ISBN 978-0-670-07440-2
  • Srivastava, Ranjana (2013), Dying for a chat : the communication breakdown between doctors and patients (This edition published by Penguin Books (Australia), 2013 ed.), Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-356964-0
  • Srivastava, Ranjana; Olver, Ian, (writer of foreword.) (2014), So it's cancer : now what?, Penguin Group (Australia), ISBN 978-0-670-07795-3
  • Srivastava, Ranjana (2015), After cancer : a guide to living well, Penguin Random House Australia, ISBN 978-0-14-357359-3
  • Srivastava, Ranjana, (Oncologist) (2015), A cancer companion : an oncologist's advice on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, Chicago The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-30664-3
  • What it takes to be a doctor, Simon & Schuster Australia, 2018, ISBN 978-1-925791-74-7

References

  1. ↑ "Oncologist Ranjana Srivastava: telling the truth about life and death". Australia: ABC. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 So It's Cancer: Now What?. Melborne & London: Penguin. 2014. p. 5. ISBN 9780857976406.
  3. ↑ Srivastata, Ranjana (15 June 2015). "Losing my twin baby boys for ever changed the way I treat my patients". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Freeman-Greene, Suzy (13 April 2013). "Learning to talk is not brain surgery". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Medal (OAM) of the Order of Australia in the General Division" (PDF). Government of Australia. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
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