Category: Melanoma and Sarcoma
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The Teacher.
Elated. Content. And thankful. Today was a good day. I walked in to a clinic room and I asked “so what do you do for a living?” and the answer was well I am a teacher. I usually pause. I have an immense rush into my heart as I remember when I was a child…
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Confidential.
It is a very interesting place to be in the room with one of my patients. The medium of trust allows them to share their intimate secrets with me. It is tranquil and exceptionally vast. Where am I tonight you might wonder as you read this? I guess I’m with myself; in a place where…
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What have they got that I ain’t got?
Courage. You can say that again. It has been playing like the movie in my mind, with the cowardly lion staring at Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. Courage. I have had an eventful weekend amongst my heroes, my heart is heavy. My tongue is tied. I’ll try to share why. I saw so many.…
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Nonsense.
“That is what the protocol says.” I was annoyed. “So you want me to have the patient drive back 2 and a half hours because the protocol says…” “I know it does not make sense and it is not logical but that is what the protocol says, Mo”. This was going nowhere. Frustrated, I hung…
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Bounce.
“It’s a fine line between optimism and pessimism” he said to me, and I looked at him staring blankly. We talked about how it’s so easy to see things with a half empty glass and how the pressures around us sometimes dictate how we view life as it pertains to our practices and the decisions…
Mo About Cancer 