Tag: trust

• Fabric

  “Is it a myth?” My colleague standing next to me asked in the back room. “Treating cancer, are we really doing anything to help these patients?” I pulled up a scan of a patient diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to the lungs, who was receiving a novel agent and showed the questioner the response.…

  momilhem

  September 10, 2014

  Melanoma, Patient Care, Perspectives

  cancer, melanoma, Patient care, trust

• How?

  “You got me this far” he told me. And then making it more difficult “I trust you” he added. Perhaps these should be easy words to hear and I should be proud that I was able to do something and be commended. But it’s the other words that linger “I trust you” he repeated. As…

  momilhem

  October 9, 2013

  Melanoma and Sarcoma, Patient Care, Perspectives

  cancer, Doctor Mo, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Iowa, Medical Oncology, Medicine, Mo Milhem, Mount Everest, Patient, trust, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Health Care

• 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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  September 4, 2013

  Melanoma and Sarcoma

  cancer, Disease, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Iowa, Iowa City, melanoma, Milhem, Mo Milhem, Oncology, Patient, Patient Confidentiality, Sarcoma, trust, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Health Care