Tag: Oncology
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Reflections
I have been away from my blog for some time now. As I think along my journey, I will be sharing thoughts about healthcare systems, education in medicine and a vision for cancer care. I will touch on troubled waters and the fragmentation of these systems. There is a palpable decline in talent across many…
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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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The Messenger
What happens when someone reveals a difficult part of themselves when they are faced with adversity? New parts of us are expressed as we break down, or we show our teeth, when we fight or bite, or retreat in situations we wished we had never been forced to endure. I have seen all sorts of…
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Yell
Her face was ashen as she walked into the clinic room. Her movements were slow, and deliberate. She was clearly significantly fatigued. Not the bubbly person I knew her to be 2 weeks ago. Clearly something was amiss. I was walking to see another patient, but my critical eye could not dismiss that my patient…
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Blog Holiday!
Dear friends, I have enjoyed writing to you every week on my blog. We have had a few guest bloggers as well and the feedback from all of you has been great. This week I will not be blogging and will start doing that every 2 weeks with an occasional guest blogger jumping in on…
Mo About Cancer 