How the book “When Breath Becomes Air” changed my practice

Behind every door in my clinic, is human suffering.  It hangs like a mist; I can see the living ghosts of my patients through it.

As an oncologist who treats primarily pancreatic cancer, many of my patients will be dead within a year of our first meeting.  I knew this would be the case when I chose my specialty. Pancreas cancer is one of the last frontiers in cancer therapeutics:  a …

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