I learned more about comprehensive cancer care when I becamea patient in 1996 than I had during a residency in medicineor in practice as an internist and palliative care physicianin a teaching hospital. When I was given a diagnosis of aggressiveinflammatory carcinoma, I found myself transformed from onewho orders and administers medication to a terrified recipient.Until then, I had felt that I was a particularly empatheticdoctor who listened to and, I thought, heard the stories ofmy patients. It was a shock, then, to undergo the foreign andsurreal experience of becoming a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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