Many years ago when I directed a family planning clinic, an abortion patient (“Jenny”) informed me that she was there for her eleventh abortion. With neutrality, I responded to Jenny with questions about birth control usage, wanting to encourage options for her. Like the experience of so m...
One oncologist told one patient, If you don’t have any more money to pay me, ask your husband to go and rob the bank. Indeed crude. But look at this problem of money from the viewpoint of the one who has to pay the expensive medical bills. For these common people, raising money ...
Understanding oncologists’ perceptions of telehealth elucidates potential barriers that need to be further investigated or improved for telehealth expansion and continued utilization; further research is ongoing to assess current perceptions of health professionals and patients given the rapid expansion of ...
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Measures Patients provided information about chemotherapy decisions, including how strongly the oncologist recommended chemotherapy on a 1- to 5-point scale (1, very strongly; 2, weakly; 3, left it up to me; 4, weakly against it; and 5, very strongly against it), whether they saw...
It is important that neurosurgeons, neurooncologists, and pathologists in this part of the world are aware of low-grade epilepsy-related tumors of the young. The importance of a multidisciplinary approach in the diagnosis, surgery, and postsurgical management of these patients cannot be overemphasize...
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(CBS Chicago) California oncologist Lauren Pinter-Brown, MD, was awarded nearly $4 million in attorney fees in a discrimination and wrongful termination case against the Regents of the University of California, according to a press release from attorneys. In May, a jury had awarded her $14 ...
The human genome project was a ground-breaking scientific endeavour that not only gave us a near complete map of our genetic code but also paved the way for new innovative sequencing technologies and computational methods that have enabled the clinical application of genomics [1,2,3,4]. While ...
which quickly solved the problem. Later that spring, I noticed that my right calf didn’t fit comfortably into my pants. My oncologist ordered scans to rule out blood clots, then suggested that maybe I was experiencing lymphedema—a swelling that some, but not all, patients experience when ly...