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. She received her medical degree from Monash University. In 2004 she won the Fulbright Award, awarded by the University of Chicago.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. A regular contributor to the London Guardian newspaper, she has written four books: 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. Wikipedia
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