Tag: cancer
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Inner Thoughts
Better incentives, infrastructure key to unlocking collaboration True collaboration should be embedded in the practice of medicine. It should be baked in, a given, something we don’t need to write columns on. Today, it’s not. In today’s health care environment, fully integrated, cross-disciplinary teams remain a work in progress. We need to move faster to…
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Mute
There is a button on everyone’s remote control that can at any time mute any electrical device that makes a sound. It’s there and we can use it. We don’t always mute things. We have all grown accustomed to the noises around us. Being around a device emitting any sound keeps us distracted, engaged, and…
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Dialogue
Person: Can you help me? Me: I believe that is why I am here, ready with a new treatment, a loaded gun and many tricks up my sleeve. P: Is it always this hard? M: Yes. P: Is there hope? M: Without it, we will not survive. Imagine this dialogue that starts in the pit…
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Quiet
“I don’t need this right now,” he said as I finished telling my patient the plan of his care. He had been quiet. I sighed and made my way back to my chair to settle down. Sitting down, I let my mind wander. It’s not easy to change things midstream but I think oncologists should…
Mo About Cancer 