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 …
