Category: Perspectives
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Fresh Eyes
Many people come in to my clinic to shadow me and follow me around seeing my patients with me. Today I have asked 2 college students to share their thoughts. I had sent them both an email that said: “Thank you for coming to the clinic, you and another college student have enhanced my understanding…
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College Student to Caregiver
July is sarcoma awareness month so I’ve invited others affected by sarcoma to guest blog throughout the month. The last blog of the month comes from Moleigh Ryther, girlfriend to Nik Jiruska, Ewing’s Sarcoma survivor. Nik blogged earlier this month and now Moleigh shares her story as a caregiver to a loved one with cancer. Caregiving is hard.…
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Random
Death is a door. It is a moment in time that is well-defined. Once it happens it is irreversible. Just like the diagnosis of cancer. It cannot be undone. I have said the word “Sarcoma” to so many patients. Yet this is a rare disease. It stems from the Greek word that means “fleshy growth”.…
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Don’t give up the fight!
July is sarcoma awareness month so I’ve invited others affected by sarcoma to guest blog throughout the month. Today’s blog comes from Suzanne Burkhart, wife to a sarcoma angel, Jim Burkhart. When my husband Jim told me he had Sarcoma, I looked at him and said “Are you sure the doctor didn’t say ‘Carcinoma’”?…
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Frazzled
The tension in the work room was mounting. The research coordinator sat next to physician’s assistant who was waiting eagerly by the phone. She was waiting for a phone call from the radiologist. I knew who this was for as I had walked by the room multiple times and seen the patient pacing up and…
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