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Changing Doctors – What Matters |
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Changing doctors is hard to do. Especially when that doctor is your oncologist. I know. I did it. I still feel guilty, but it is a common story.
In 2000 when I was first diagnosed with cancer...
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Cancer treatment becomes learning lab about patience |
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There is nothing like a bout of cancer to teach you how to be patient. First, there is the endless waiting at the doctors' offices to find out what test(s) need to be done to determine more about the...
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Cancer and the Great Turnaround |
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People love a great “turnaround”. What do I mean? We are suckers for a rags-to-riches or a bad-boy-turns-nice story. It may be that we are drawn to a great “turnaround” because it reminds...
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Cancer: Mountain or Molehill? |
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With school just back in session, mornings in my house are still not running smoothly. I try to get the four kids up and showered, get their lunches packed, and put their roller backpacks in the car...
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I was examining a patient when the cell phone in my pocket vibrated. “Excuse me, but it might be one of my children,” I explained. The patient graciously encouraged me to answer it. Sure enough...
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On a recent family outing we stopped the van at a busy intersection in West Palm Beach. The man who approached our car looked dirty and disheveled. He did not appear psychotic. He carried a sign made...
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For every black cancer cloud, there's always a silver lining |
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Of all the things I mourn after being treated for cancer, I miss not having the keen senses I did before chemotherapy.
It isn't all bad. Before cancer, I could smell a dirty diaper on someone...
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Cancer and the meditation misfit |
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When I was first diagnosed with cancer, I started reading volumes about alternative treatments. Not that I was going to skip my surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, but I wanted to complement it...
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