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Medicine must create inclusive clinical trials [PODCAST]

January 7, 2021Jan 7, 2021

"Researchers should make clinical trials more accessible by providing patients with simple explanations of studies at a variety of locations, including community clinics and medical centers. Increased flexibility regarding transportation and visit timing is essential. Researchers should also allow the…

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“Researchers should make clinical trials more accessible by providing patients with simple explanations of studies at a variety of locations, including community clinics and medical centers. Increased flexibility regarding transportation and visit timing is essential. Researchers should also allow the participation of people who do not speak English and those living with chronic conditions whenever it is safe to do so. …

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How the lessons from breast cancer saved this physician from burnout

Cory Fawcett, MD

January 6, 2021Jan 6, 2021

October is traditionally known as breast cancer awareness month. For me, seeing all the pink on social media is a stark reminder of my brush with the terror of breast cancer. As I was about to scrub into an operation,…

October is traditionally known as breast cancer awareness month. For me, seeing all the pink on social media is a stark reminder of my brush with the terror of breast cancer.

As I was about to scrub into an operation, I got a call from my office manager. She asked if I would be at my wife’s doctor’s appointment with my partner that afternoon. I told her I was busy, but …

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Genital shrinkage is real. And so is the distress it causes.

Anne Katz, RN, PhD

December 29, 2020Dec 29, 20206

“How can I help you, sir?” I asked because it was clear he wanted help. I could sense the man’s distress over the phone. His voice cracked just a little, and he cleared his throat frequently. I hadn’t met him, and so had no image of him in my mind, but I thought he might be tall, broad-shouldered, and maybe …

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With cancer, you often get some prep time

Elizabeth Blanchard, MD

December 26, 2020Dec 26, 2020

Some poignant moments with patients take me by surprise. I have had hundreds (thousands?) of difficult discussions with patients. They are all difficult and unique, but sometimes they unexpectedly and without good explanation, catch me off guard. I saw a…

I saw a long term patient with metastatic cancer who survived recent saddle PE despite a delay in anticoagulation. Not many people have this kind of strength. When I mentioned this fact, she shrugged …

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What does colon cancer screening have to do with self-driving cars? [PODCAST]

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December 16, 2020Dec 16, 2020

"We can clearly see that exponential technologies are disrupting cars and phones. So why wouldn’t these technologies find their way into health care and gastroenterology? What do stool tests have to do with self-driving cars? We’ll soon find out. But…

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“We can clearly see that exponential technologies are disrupting cars and phones. So why wouldn’t these technologies find their way into health care and gastroenterology?

What do stool tests have to do with self-driving cars? We’ll soon find out. But let’s first go back to the discussion we had earlier on the shift to digital. Screening for cancer through colonoscopy, while a …

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Alone and frightened is the way COVID patients die

Constantine Ioannou, MD

December 9, 2020Dec 9, 2020

I began my career in psychiatry with the desire to work with dying patients. This is an odd way to begin, but I had begun my career with interest in oncology and eventually discovered the field of psycho-oncology. After graduating, the first population I worked with was HIV infected individuals when an HIV diagnosis was a certain death sentence. The work centered on helping the individual accept their impending death …

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Live like you are dying

Edna Wong McKinstry, MD

December 7, 2020Dec 7, 2020

“Hey, did you hear the news?” Tanya, my long-time friend, texts, referring to a social media post. It is peculiar (even perplexing) we get our news this way. “In a relationship,” engagements, weddings, buns-in-ovens. Baby pictures, white beaches, sunsets. Those…

“Hey, did you hear the news?” Tanya, my long-time friend, texts, referring to a social media post.

It is peculiar (even perplexing) we get our news this way. “In a relationship,” engagements, weddings, buns-in-ovens. Baby pictures, white beaches, sunsets. Those are happy news.

Then there are the break-ups, the “not-in-a-relationship,” the I-hate-my-job rants. These posts are intense. The need for drama goads me into wanting to know more about the people’s not-so-secret …

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Moral injury and practicing oncology during COVID-19 [PODCAST]

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November 6, 2020Nov 6, 2020

"As our office begins to return to pre-COVID operations, it has been uplifting to have a relative sense of normalcy, even though morale seems to be reduced. It is difficult to promote team building and improve morale when everyone has…

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“As our office begins to return to pre-COVID operations, it has been uplifting to have a relative sense of normalcy, even though morale seems to be reduced. It is difficult to promote team building and improve morale when everyone has to maintain social distancing. I would love to go out for a meal with my staff, hug my patients, and lecture …

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This Lung Cancer Awareness Month is like no other

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

November 6, 2020Nov 6, 2020

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a time when many people in my profession shine a spotlight on the dangers of taking lung health for granted. This year, few need the reminder. COVID-19 is deadly, contagious, and upending life as…

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a time when many people in my profession shine a spotlight on the dangers of taking lung health for granted. This year, few need the reminder.

COVID-19 is deadly, contagious, and upending life as we know it. It is also a lung disease. As a thoracic surgeon, I tell people that, if you’re worried about COVID-19, what you’re really worried about is lung health. And …

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Chadwick Boseman: a tale of two cancers in America

Adeel Khan, MD

October 26, 2020Oct 26, 20205

The recent death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has brought immense attention to the future of the Supreme Court with the scrutinized nomination of Amy Barrett amid the COVID-19 pandemic and upcoming presidential election. As an oncologist and public health physician, however, I cannot help but to focus on the medical causes of her death rather than the political consequences and see a stark contrast in her passing from cancer …

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A physician’s DIY rehabilitation miracle

Anne Helene Brandt, MD

October 25, 2020Oct 25, 2020

My head used to be my greatest asset, and back in 2012, I had my life on track because of it. With a medical education and a few years of work experience on my back, I felt that I had…

My head used to be my greatest asset, and back in 2012, I had my life on track because of it. With a medical education and a few years of work experience on my back, I felt that I had options in life. I had even saved up to be able to buy a home.

Then illness caught up with me. And not just any illness, but one of the kinds …

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Lung cancer screening explained by a pulmonologist

Rizwana Khan, MD

October 25, 2020Oct 25, 2020

Lung cancer screening is a process that is used to detect the presence of lung cancer in otherwise healthy people at high risk for cancer. In 2020, 229,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer, and 136,000 people will die…

Data show that screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces the risk of dying …

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Help the public understand what more can be done to support loved ones affected by a serious illness

Anonymous

October 13, 2020Oct 13, 2020

“Is there anything more we could have done?” I am not the first person to ask this question, and I will not be the last. This past week I learned that an ex-boyfriend from my graduate school years, who had…

“Is there anything more we could have done?”

I am not the first person to ask this question, and I will not be the last.

This past week I learned that an ex-boyfriend from my graduate school years, who had moved overseas in 2016 and disappeared off the grid, was recently diagnosed with lymphoma, developed severe complications, and passed away. He was in his late twenties and a month from moving back …

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A medical student’s summer of 2020: Family matters

Rohan Sehgal

October 8, 2020Oct 8, 2020

The summer of 2020 is easily one that I would rather forget but has been one that, I believe, will be etched in my memory for a very long time. After a brief vacation to visit my maternal relatives in…

The summer of 2020 is easily one that I would rather forget but has been one that, I believe, will be etched in my memory for a very long time.

After a brief vacation to visit my maternal relatives in India during last winter break, I welcomed 2020 with some good news: I had been selected for a clinical research internship on an aging population study at the National Institute of …

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Treating cancer patients in a pandemic [PODCAST]

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September 26, 2020Sep 26, 2020

"As an oncologist, perhaps the hardest part I play is as witness. I am there to give a diagnosis that, more often than not, will alter someone’s life forever. For some, I see resignation—a sense that they’ve known something was…

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“As an oncologist, perhaps the hardest part I play is as witness. I am there to give a diagnosis that, more often than not, will alter someone’s life forever. For some, I see resignation—a sense that they’ve known something was wrong and that it’s what they thought they had. For others, I see an almost immediate acceptance and, with it, perseverance; …

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Death is personal for this physician

Jeff Spiess, MD

September 26, 2020Sep 26, 2020

An excerpt from Dying with Ease: A Compassionate Guide for Making Wiser End-of-Life Decisions. Used by permission of the publisher Rowman & Littlefield. All rights reserved. In 2017, there were 2,813,503 deaths in the United States. About a quarter of…

In 2017, there were 2,813,503 deaths in the United States. About a quarter of Americans die of heart disease, some 22 percent from cancer, and about one in twenty each for stroke and accidents. But there is one statistic that doesn’t …

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Do COVID restrictions in the office negatively affect patients?

Anne Katz, RN, PhD

September 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020

Many health care facilities are enacting policies during this time of COVID-19 that restrict the number of people attending appointments in person. Family care providers are asked to wait outside or drop off the patient for their appointment and come…

There are, of course, exceptions made for those receiving a new diagnosis or when the …

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Patients without traditional support systems, and the doctors who stereotype them [PODCAST]

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September 17, 2020Sep 17, 2020

"When doctors ignore the evidence showing that a support system doesn’t have to be traditional in order to be effective, that’s not a medical judgment. It’s a personal prejudice that puts singles at serious risk. Classifying patients as married or…

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“When doctors ignore the evidence showing that a support system doesn’t have to be traditional in order to be effective, that’s not a medical judgment. It’s a personal prejudice that puts singles at serious risk.

Classifying patients as married or unmarried when studying the effects of social support undoubtedly makes research easier, with groups determined by a simplistic either-or. But since social …

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Sunscreens: The balancing act between safety and cancer prevention

J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, MD

September 12, 2020Sep 12, 20202

That’s the question that will be on the minds of many as the Food and Drug Administration releases a second study on the absorption of sunscreens. The reality is that answering the “safe” question is becoming more complicated—and more important as well, given the fact that so many of us use sunscreens as part of our own sun safety efforts, while others (me included) use sunscreen as part of our daily …

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Why this physician created the Cancer and Pregnancy Registry

Elyce Cardonick, MD

September 7, 2020Sep 7, 2020

Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed during pregnancy. In fact, 5 percent of invasive breast cancers occur in women less than 40 years of age, and 7 to 14 percent of premenopausal breast cancers occur in pregnant women.…

Harrington and other surgeons in 1943 felt that the prognosis was so poor for pregnant women with breast cancer that radical mastectomy was not justified. As women delay both marriage and …

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