For five years, I’ve navigated a complex medical journey. At age 38, at the peak of my health, I developed shortness of breath. I wrote it off as adult-onset asthma, fatigue, or “just getting older.” When I put a pulse ox on one morning and saw my numbers drop to 88 percent, I knew something was wrong. It was an arduous process, but I ended up with a diagnosis of …
AI and clinical judgment belong together, not at war
“I wish I could get a free boob job.”
It is a comment I heard more than once after sharing I was undergoing a double mastectomy. I understand the impulse, people do not know what to say. But the joke reveals something worth examining: how little most people understand about what this surgery actually costs you.
At 28, I found out I carried the breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) mutation. At 34, …
Breast cancer rehabilitation requires occupational therapy
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