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The Politics of Healthcare

Swirling around the great debates about our economy, and real worries and financial turmoil, are the very basic issues of individuals in America getting the healthcare they need – and deserve. This was brought home to me yet again this past Saturday evening when, as a local board member of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, [...]

Forgotten Young Adults with Cancer

70,000 American young adults are diagnosed with cancer each year. For many, it took them quite awhile to get an accurate diagnosis since the first doctor they saw pooh-poohed the idea that a young adult could even have cancer. Too often they were told it was a sports injury…or the flu…or a nerve problem..or a [...]

Celebrities and Sudden Death

The Inconvenience of Saving Your Life

The phone rang this morning on our new Patient Power Hotline (877-232-5445). On the line was a worried woman from Lawton, Oklahoma. She’d been diagnosed with malignant melanoma that had spread to her lymph nodes. She was waiting for more test results to learn how far the spread had gone. She had listened to our [...]

Suffering Through Two Doctors Who Were Wrong

Most doctors are well meaning. They do not deliberately make mistakes or have their patients suffer. But within the past 11 days I suffered when two internists “got it wrong.” It took a third doctor, a cancer specialist, to get it right and ease my pain. The story has lessons for you.

It begins with [...]

Sprinting into Fall

I am writing this as the calm of the Labor Day holiday is about to fade in the rear view mirror. All too soon we will be sprinting into Fall with no respite until Thanksgiving. After a refreshing summer, it is time to get down to business.

Later this week I will be in Houston [...]