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In CancerDoc - Posted 41 weeks ago
The day is long. Stressful. So-and-so has a lytic lesion at T1. Mrs. X just got intubated and is in the ICU. Mr. Y has called 10 times in the last...
In CancerDoc - Posted 42 weeks ago
Hmm, I don't know... C'mon, Dr. ________, my husband noticed the other day. I think he's right Well, uh, there's definitely a slight shift to the ...
In CancerDoc - Posted 46 weeks ago
I get it. I do now. For years, after hours, days, years, even decades of studying, then student loans, 100-hour workweeks, I always told myself that...
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In CancerDoc - Posted 49 weeks ago
It's been a while since I wrote anything. I'm not sure why. I suppose I could feed some bullshit about the emotional toll of being an oncologist .....
In CancerDoc - Posted 1 year ago
I'll call him Jack. Eighty-four years old, 57 years married to the same woman, WWII vet, all-around nice guy. Shows up one day to his primary care p...
In CancerDoc - Posted 1 year ago
This past week has been surreal for me. Cast for the first time in my life on the receiving end of bad news rather than the delivering end, it's open...
In CancerDoc - Posted 1 year ago
I just got back from several weeks of vacation in Thailand, the homeland of my parents, also where my brother lives and works. See the family, tour t...
In CancerDoc - Posted 1 year ago
I remember when I was growing up, myself the son of a cardiologist, growing up amidst a community of physicians and lawyers and successful businessmen...
In CancerDoc - Posted 1 year ago
As a non-Christian, I sometimes wonder why this day is called Good Friday ? What could have been good about the death of Jesus Christ? It seems l...
In CancerDoc - Posted 1 year ago
It hurts He's my life, I can't let him go Is it really that bad? I don't know what to do... should I put him in the nursing home? I just can't ta...
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