Andrew blogs from the 2nd day of the American Society of Hematology’s 52nd Annual Meeting. [...]
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Hollywood star Michael Douglas, 65 There’s news that Hollywood star Michael Douglas, 65, is undergoing treatment for throat cancer. Reporters say his doctors say he is expected to make a full recovery. But, believe me, when someone is diagnosed with any kind of head and neck cancer, as this is, it is not an [...] Heart patient Ed Dunifin and his wife of 35 years, Karen. I had not been to Indiana for 42 years. But last week I found myself on a commuter train in Michigan City, Indiana taking my family on the South Shore Line to Chicago for the day. We were vacationing not far away [...] 40-year-old Rhonda Craig of Lake Stevens, Washington is a no-baloney-type woman. Good thing. She has a tough job as a Washington State Trooper. She can find herself speeding along on a remote highway at night to pull over someone who is usually law abiding and compliant or someone who could be a deadly threat. Rhonda, [...] Over the weekend I began to worry if I have been unfair. Just last week in a webcast about the latest comprehensive treatments for brain cancer I urged patients to seek treatment, or at least a consultation, at an academic medical center where they have sub-specialists in neuro-oncology and related specialties. I do believe that [...] There are two items in the news this week that caught my attention. One talks about the use of over a billion dollars from the new Federal Government stimulus package to assess which widely used medical treatments are really best (NYT 2/16/09, “US to Study Effectiveness of Treatments”). The second announces how, Zagat, the prestigious [...] It started on the flight from Seattle to Santa Barbara, California the other morning. The woman sitting next to me shared that she was flying down to visit her ailing 88-year-old father who was being admitted to hospice. Up until recently, she explained, he was a very vibrant senior – a former IRS accounting expert [...] Dear Patient Power Friends: Comedian Bernie Mac (“Ocean’s Eleven”) died Saturday while hospitalized for what was said to be pneumonia. He had been living with a chronic lung condition, sarcoidosis, which he had previously said was in remission. We will miss Bernie as he was a talented and unique comedian. His death gets me thinking [...] |
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