Yesterday a lovely 81 year old came in with a tiny gynecologic problem and a huge anxiety issue. She gets up too many times at night to empty her bladder and worries she might leak and, one...
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New Year’s Resolutions For Survivors |
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It’s that time of year. Time to make resolutions for 2007! All the routine ones are boring and overused: Lose weight. Work out. Clean out the closets. Be nicer to____(fill in the blank...
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Madeline was scheduled for a routine gynecologic exam. I went into the exam room and immediately knew something was very wrong. She was wearing dark glasses. Her all-black clothing was piled on a...
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Hospice and Advanced Directives |
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November is National Hospice Month. I first got interested in the hospice movement when I was a junior at Georgetown University in the late 70s. I volunteered at a hospice in Washington, DC as part...
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The Word -- Little Word -- Big Impact |
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My youngest son looked up at me, batting his angelic blue eyes with long lashes. I suspected what was coming.
“Can I have this new video game? Pretty, please?” Bat, bat, bat.
“What is...
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This week three people died. All three deaths seemed both arbitrary and unnecessary. These deaths ripped off the shield of optimism that normally covers my heart. Once again I am left facing fear...
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A Plea for Blood Donors to Help Save a Life |
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A friend of mine, a tennis pro, emailed me last week to ask if I had any ideas about how to find blood donors. Her friend, Fred Trust, also a tennis pro, is desperate to get his daughter Stephanie...
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I have a friend who is super-special. I will call her Cate (not her real name). Cate is special because she is a dynamic, loving wife and mother and a caring individual on top of all that...
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Should Cancer be a Secret |
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When an elderly patient came in complaining of difficulty holding her urine, I was ready with a few possible diagnoses: Perhaps a urinary tract infection or a dropped bladder. In medical school I was...
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It’s that time of year…October…Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For 8 weeks, two at the end of September, the whole month of October and then the first few weeks of November, the world turns...
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