It's easy to forget the real meaning of a cancer walk. I'm breaking my 250-word-limit rule to share the 704-word speech I delivered yesterday at the start of the 5K Dallas Lymphoma Walk
Read moreWalking to Help Others
This blog is designed to help readers get good care and live as fully as possible Once a year, I use it as a soapbox to make a plea:
Read moreArmorUp for Life
Preventing illness gets plenty of press. The idea of preparing for it? Not so much. Hernandez-Aldama was a fitness-loving health reporter
Read moreA Healthy Response to News about Rising Rates of Colorectal Cancer in Young People
What are readers supposed to do with the news about colorectal cancers? How can the information be used to foster Healthy Survivorship?
Read moreHelping Your Doctor Make the Diagnosis
How can you help your doctors make the correct diagnoses?
Read moreCaring about the CARE Act
Do you know about the CARE Act? Clue: It's not the ACA (affordable care act)
Read moreLessons of Elie Wiesel's "Night"
Should Your Physician Confide if She Just Lost a Patient?
Your physician is running late, because she’s composing herself before entering the exam room where you’re waiting. If, understandably, she’s not her usual bubbly self, should she confide that she just lost a patient?
Read moreWhy Realistic Hopes are Healing
You could argue that false hope makes patients feel good and stirs the same placebo effect as realistic hope. Those are both healing benefits. Why my insistence that Healthy Survivors nourish realistic hope?
Read moreHope that Works
"...hope, to provide what it can and should, needs to be tied to reality." That's the line that prompted me to share
Read moreHappy Despite My Brain Cancer Diagnosis
Journalist Jeffrey Weiss offers testimony to the benefits of "hopeful acceptance"--accepting a poor prognosis while hoping for the best possible outcome.
Read moreA Risk of Empowering Patients--Part III
Patient empowerment is intended to help patients. Like any power, it can harm. Patients may suffer untoward consequences if through their efforts to get good care...
Read moreA Risk of Empowering Patients--Part II
Not all patients embrace the idea of patient empowerment. In particular, some patients don't want to be actively involved in their treatment decisions. Others don't want to hear lists of things they should be doing to optimize their outcome. Why?
Read moreA Risk of Empowering Patients
In response to Miller's editorial intended to empower patients, a reader said, "the lingering feeling is we are to blame [if the cancer recurs]...it's all our own fault."
Read moreLaura Miller's Epiphanies and Regrets While Dealing with Cancer Again--Part II
In my last post I shared two of Miller's epiphanies. Here's more:
Read moreLaura Miller's Epiphanies and Regrets While Dealing with Cancer Again - Part I
Former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller wrote a smart and powerful editorial, with hope that "Perhaps some of what I've done (and, unfortunately, haven't done) can help others."
Read moreMaking the Best Medical Decisions - Part III
Are you a believer or a doubter, when it comes to modern medicine?
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