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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece entitled “Pink to Black for Metastatic Breast Cancer” In summary, I went back 5 years to a previous post about my feelings about having dedicated breast cancer centers and how my views on the matter...
Mike “Lala” Jankovic stood less than 5 feet tall with dark wavy hair and thick sideburns and continual 3-day beard growth it seemed. He was sort of a mix of Louie DePalma and Latka Gravas from the sitcom Taxi that was on television about...
Five years ago this month I wrote a piece entitled “Who Will be the Next Susan Goodman Komen? Or Nancy Goodman Brinker?” In that post, in part, I wrote “Speaking for myself I think it stems from the amount of funding put towards “breast...
I recently came across a blog post on KevinMD entitled “Patients are not customers. Here are 6 reasons why” written by Dr. Shirie Leng, an anesthesiologist in Massachusetts. She introduces the post comparing how we purchase goods and...
Being a medical intern is easy. It’s like riding a bike. Except the bike is on fire, you’re on fire, everything is on fire and you’re in hell. It is for those who have done so, particularly if it was for no other reason than to check a...
At around 8 PM, on September 10, 2001 I was on one of the last LaGuardia - Reagan Delta shuttles to leave New York City. I was returning from a trip to the laboratory at the hospital located on the U.S. Military Academy base in West Point, NY....
