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Three articles caught our eye at NCCS this week. The one that raises the most questions for us in terms of policy development is from our friend, Amy Abernathy, appearing as a blog post for the June 10th issue of The Hill. Her argument in support of patient-centered care is something we have advocated for […]
I am happy to be back in the office, after spending five days in Chicago at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. It was ASCO’s 50th anniversary, and this year was the highest attendance, with 33,000 people from around the globe. It’s an exciting and exhausting five days, with scientific sessions that […]
In the May 22nd Health Affairs online blog, “Living My Life My Own Way,” Amy Berman writes about what she knows firsthand and what she has learned from many years of professional experience. And she writes and speaks about it so well, which is one of her many gifts. She was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in October […]
In the Health Section of this week’s Washington Post and in greater detail in the Narrative Matters portion of this month’s Health Affairs, Dr. Diane Meier, a noted expert in the field of palliative medicine and a professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, writes about the role of palliative care […]
In an essay in The New York Times, Dr. Kent Sepkowitz writes about the value of evidence-based medicine and the Cochrane Collaboration’s process of systematic review to assess the body of evidence on challenging medical questions and offer guidance for clinicians. Dr. Sepkowitz points out that skeptics of evidence-based medicine suggest that the practice of […]
In a series of Well Blogs in The New York Times in early 2011, Dr. Peter Bach wrote about the experiences he and his wife Ruth had when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Through his honest, but sometimes raw observations about how the medical system and individual oncologists can help us manage a […]
Long-Term Unemployment Issues for Some Breast Cancer Survivors A recent study led by Dr. Reshma Jagsi of the University of Michigan Health System suggests the need for further discussion surrounding one potential long-term side effect of cancer treatment—unemployment. Employment loss is a concern for many patients in active treatment, however the study found long-term unemployment […]
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