Tag: Clinical trial

• 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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  August 21, 2013

  Melanoma and Sarcoma

  cancer, Clinical trial, Doctor Mo, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Iowa, melanoma, Mo Milhem, Oncology, Patient, Protocol, Sarcoma, University of Iowa

• 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…

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  August 14, 2013

  Melanoma and Sarcoma

  Bounce, cancer, Clinical trial, Disease, doctor, Doctor Mo, Health, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, hope, Iowa, Iowa City, Is the glass half empty or half full?, Medical Oncology, Milhem, Mo Milhem, Nicholas Taleb, Patient, reality, Research, results, scans, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Health Care

• I do not know.

  “Why me?” she asked me today in clinic. I’m home and thinking and this question just will not leave me. Really, why? I honestly do not know why.  It is a plaguing question. Many have asked me and I search hard for the answer. I am not about to answer this sitting here on my…

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  July 31, 2013

  Melanoma and Sarcoma

  cancer, Clinical trial, Disease, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Iowa, Iowa City, Medical Oncology, melanoma, Michael Henry, Mo Milhem, NCI-designated Cancer Center, Patient, Research, Sarcoma, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Health Care, Wright Brothers