Today I saw a new breast cancer patient in clinic. She was a lovely lady of 64, who had retired last year from her job as a special education teacher. Her medical history had been unremarkable until last November when she began to gain weight inexplicably. She was also short of breath, but did not… Continue reading Denial Redux
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Denial Is Not a River in Egypt
If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.” ― Rumi Yesterday I saw a patient—an 80 year old woman with metastatic cancer involving her bones. She had near complete replacement of her twelfth thoracic vertebra by tumor, and also significant destruction of her fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae, demonstrated by PET-CT… Continue reading Denial Is Not a River in Egypt