The successes make the challenging cases more bearable
I first met her in the urgent care at the cancer center when I was on call one night. She was beautiful: 53 years old, four adult sons, and in incredible pain. She had stage 4 breast cancer, and unbeknownst to her, she had a metastatic lesion in her femoral neck, which she had fractured about four weeks ago. But she’d just had a spine operation for mets in her …
The successes make the challenging cases more bearable
