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Cancer Diagnosis Galvanizes a Medical Student How a support network—and a special bond with his doctor—helped a 22-year-old med student fight lymphoma.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoOctober 23, 2017Topics: Empathy&Sympathy / Personal Context / Perspective / Provider-Patient RelationshipKeywords: cancer / illness / medical student

The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

Contributor: Francesca CiminoOctober 19, 2017Topics: Compassion Fatigue / Empathy&Sympathy / Illness & DisabilityKeywords: illness / suffering

Can Doctors See Beyond Patients' Weight? A sibling shares his account of his sister's weight loss, the commentary and judgment that accompanied it, and the terrible outcome of its aftermath.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoOctober 19, 2017Topics: Compassion Fatigue / Empathy&Sympathy / Illness & Disability / Loss / Mistakes / Obesity/Weight / Perspective / Provider-Patient RelationshipKeywords: bias / illness / obesity / weight loss

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When Doctors Tell Patients What They Don't Want To Hear

Contributor: Francesca CiminoOctober 4, 2017Topics: Communication / Conflict / Death&Dying / Illness & Disability / Mistakes / Perspective / Provider-Patient Relationship / Reaction / TrustKeywords: acceptance / communication / illness / pain

Doctors with disabilities - why they are important.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoJuly 20, 2017Topics: Compassion Fatigue / Death&Dying / Illness & Disability / Perspective / Provider-Patient RelationshipKeywords: disability / illness / provider-patient relationship

The Voices Inside My Head To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her head started talking.

Contributor: Adam SapersteinNovember 7, 2016Topics: Illness & DisabilityKeywords: health / illness / mental / schizophrenia

Finding Refuge With the Skin I'm In How one woman searches for confidence while coping with lamellar ichthyosis, a genetic disorder of the skin.

Contributor: Karlen BaderAugust 25, 2016Topics: Illness & DisabilityKeywords: disorder / genetic / ichthyosis / illness / skin

What the Doctor Said Poem describing a patient's experience when being delivered bad news from their doctor.

Contributor: Karlen BaderMay 13, 2016Topics: Death&Dying / Illness & DisabilityKeywords: communication / diagnosis / disability / dying / illness / news / sickness

An Ill Newborn, A Loving Family And A Litany of Wrenching Choices A family's premature, newborn son fighting for his life in the NICU, and the debate families and doctors often have about how to long to keep fighting, and when to let go.

Contributor: Karlen BaderJanuary 26, 2016Topics: Death&Dying / Illness & DisabilityKeywords: dying / ethics / illness / infant / life / NICU

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