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Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology — 109 episodes
Purple Blossoms: What Blooms When Treating Aggressive Cancer in an Underserved Area
The Patient Who Could Not Die: What AI Can (and Can't) Teach Oncologists About Connection
Forty: The Desert as a Metaphor for Living
He Was Always There: When a Brother Speaks Truth About His Sister's Cancer
Taking Responsibility: How Caregiving Shaped an Oncologist's Approach to Her Work
The Small Cemetery Within: The Patients We Carry With Us Long After They're Gone
A Shopping List: When the Grocery Store Aisles Unite a Patient and Her Doctor
Indistinguishable from Magic: When Fantasy and Science Fiction Meet the Science of Medicine
Room 402: Visiting the Same Hospital Room as a Family Member, and Then as a Doctor
The Liver We Share: A Medical Student Becomes a Living Donor for His Wife
The Good Oncologist: Doctoring Lessons from the Art of Oncology
The Power of "I Don't Know": Why Admitting Uncertainty is an Oncologist's Greatest Strength
When Cancer Becomes a Headline: Reflections from the Clinic
Mother's Grief: Loss Through the Lens of Motherhood
North Star: The Importance of Presence in Pediatric Oncology
A Chance to Heal with Cold Hard Steel: The Fine Surgical Line Between Healing and Harming
The Quiet Work of Clarity: Seeing Into the Future at the End of Life
Final Silence: The Weight of Unspoken Words
Smell: The Scent of Inevitability
Are You Bereaved? Allowing Yourself to Grieve a Patient
The Man at the Bow: Remembering the Lives People Lived Prior to Cancer
Reflection: When Cancer Affects a Family Member
A Fight Bigger than Myeloma: Race Relations and Bias in Medicine
Whispers After the Cure: Reflections on Marriage and Malignancy in India
Brown Paper Bags: Beware of Patients Bearing Gifts
No Versus Know: Patient Empowerment Through Shared Decision Making
Transcription: Phone Call, 2018: A Mother's Love in Illness
A Whipple of Choice: Choosing Between Debilitating Surgery or Watchful Waiting
An Oncologist's Guide to Ensuring Your First Medical Grand Rounds Will Be Your Last: Lessons on How NOT to Induce Coma in Your Audience
Writing a Medical Memoir: Lessons From a Long, Steep Road
Tamales: Celebrating a Mexican Christmas Tradition
The First Hero: A Son Reflects on His Father's Illness
I Hope So Too: Creating Space to Hope with Patients and Families
You Don't Bring Me Flowers: Hospital Policy vs. Patient Joy
Host Transition: Meet Cancer Stories New Host Dr. Mikkael Sekeres
Did I Mess Up Today? Relief and Regret After Deciding to Hang Up My Stethoscope
Episteme: Knowing Your Patient
The Holiday Card: Processing the Unexpected Loss of a Patient
Rain Talk: Finding Words of Comfort at the Bedside
Just Humor Me: Laughter in the Cancer Clinic
Scotch and Pizza: Humanizing Care in the ICU Made All the Difference
Mandatum: Accompanying a Patient Until the Very End
It Mattered Later: A Patient Turned Doctor's Perspective on Fertility Loss
Three Days was Enough: Accepting Hospice Care
'Patient is Otherwise Healthy': The Challenges of Cancer Survivorship
The Road Less Traveled: Perspective From an Australian Oncologist
Knuckleheads: Understanding Patients Who Reject Treatment
The Power of Story: The Importance of Narrative in Oncology
Etch a Sketch: A Young Patient's Art Provides Imaginative Scaffolding
The Heritability of Cancer: The Impact of Parental Cancer on Children
Pet Therapy: How the Cat I Never Wanted Saved My Life
Gosses and the Dalmatian Puppy: A Memory that Halts the Pain
The Gift of Truth: Finding Closure After the Last Oncology Visit
Do You See Me?: A Candid Message from a Pharmacist to a Physician
Buenos Días: A Letter to My Patient's Mother
Playing by Eye: Using Music as a Parallel to Clinical Oncology
When the Future Is Not Now: With Optimism Comes Hope
"Why Me?", a Question of Opportunity
But Where is My Doctor? The Increasing and Relentless Fragmentation of Oncology Care
Afternoons in the Tower of Babel: Miscommunication in the ICU
Market, Gift, Everyday Ethics, and Emmanuel Levinas in Patient Care
Cemetery Rounds: Encountering Former Patients' Graves
A Labor of Love: End-of-Life Support for Young Patients
At a Loss: Patient Deaths and Clinical Research Coordinators
Capturing Memories for Children with Cancer in a Low-Resource Setting
First Cousins Once Removed: Respecting A Loved One's Wishes at the End of Life
I Want to Kill you: Facing a Threat and Finding Support and Safety
Mrs. Hattie Jones: The Patient I Can't Forget
Wearing Your Heart Around Your Neck: Fostering Physician-Patient Relationships Through Sports
Cardio-Oncology: When Two Life-Threatening Illnesses Collide
How Are You, Choi-Seonsaeng?: A Lesson in Cross-Cultural Communication
Chasing Milestones: The Importance of Shared Decision-Making Between Oncologists and Patients
Guilt and Gratitude: Staying in Touch After Cancer Treatment
People Like Us: What it Means to be an Outsider in Oncology
Preparing for the End Game: An Oncologist Shares His Reflections After a Close Friend's Death
Being on the Other Side: An Oncologist's Perspective on Grieving
Mudras in Medicine: A Role for Dance in Appreciating Non-Verbal Communication in the Clinical Encounter
The Will to Go On: Learning When to Let Go
The Side Effects of Caring: Dealing with Secondary Traumatic Stress in Oncology
A Life and Death in Haiku
Good Genes
My Mother's Last Lesson
To the Cadaver With the Port
My White Coat Doesn't Fit
Cancer and Armed Conflict: Crossing Realities
A Soft Spot
Warm Companion
Dose Painting
A Note of Gratitude
Questions for the Oncologist
Wall Street Doesn't Believe in This Target
Ode to Joy
Access Denied
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr William Breitbart
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr Sarah Donaldson
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr. Pamela Goodwin
Confidence
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr Allen Lichter
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr Anne Moore
Power in Our Hands: Addressing Racism in the Workplace
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr. Larry Norton
Knuckles
Trying To Remember How We Saw Patients on That April Morning
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr Hyman Muss
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr Patricia Ganz
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr. Lawrence Baker
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr. Allen Lichter
Food Is Love: Partnering With Families to Provide Nourishment at the End of Life
Conversations with the Pioneers of Oncology: Dr. George Canellos