I would like to tell you about three new patients I saw back-to-back-to-back last week. All three had the same diagnosis. Each of them also had the same answer to one of my questions. Patient #1, Mrs. B: A sixty-five-year-old woman with stage four adenocarcinoma of the colon diagnosed from an omental biopsy in late […]
I ran my first clinic of 2023 this week. During this clinic I had thirty-two individual patient interactions. These are a few of the people I saw: A forty-two-year-old woman with metastatic ovarian cancer who I was treating on an early phase clinical trial investigating a new drug in advanced cancers. She had been on […]
It is Friday night as I write this. For most of the last few workdays, I have been preparing for my clinic scheduled for Tuesday September 6. I typically do this work on Monday prior to my full day Tuesday clinic. This week, Monday is a statutory holiday so I will be off enjoying the […]
Dear Patient And Your Loved Ones, I am told of your sighs while you wait to see me in clinic. I get reports from clerks and nurses about you when you ask how much longer it will be because I am taking too long to get to you. I hear about your angry tone of […]
The first meeting I had with Mrs. M is burned into a part of my brain. It will stay there as if I’ve been branded, a forever memory. Mrs. M presented to my new patient clinic one year ago. She came with her husband. They were equally lovely, quiet-spoken with delightful Irish accents, highly anxious, […]
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