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I am honored to have been asked to add my experience as a first generation Iraqi-American for the celebration of Arab American Her...
Even though it was decades ago, I still remember the feeling of my heart beating in my throat as I slid down the wooden bench in g...
Co-Authored by Linda Sutton, MD, Duke Cancer Network Medical Director and Jenna Koenigshofer, DNP, Associate Director Clinical Pra...
This update may be a little late but aren’t we all sometimes 😊 We are currently at around 320 hours outside for the year! This is...
An adage in health care declares if you wish to be famous in the medical field you should discover a new disease and attach your n...
SPRING IS HERE! As of today, April 7, we have almost 160 hours outside since we launched the 1000 Hours Outside Challenge on Janua...
Many of us think of cancer as predominantly a disease of older people. Televised advertisements for children’s cancer research ins...
The American Society of Hematology, the leading scientific association concentrated on the various disorders of the blood, annuall...
Almost two months down, ten more to go! We are nearly 60 days into the 1000 hours outside challenge and have accumulated 83 hours ...
Medscape, an email service for medical news, published some observations on findings from a health practices survey conducted in F...
Hardly a clinic day passes without someone mentioning to me her enthusiasm for the new relationship Calvert Health’s oncology prog...
The first month is officially in the books! From the launch date of the CalvertHealth 1000 Hours Outside Challenge on January 23rd...
About five years ago, I developed a personal tradition of beginning each new year by reading some of the classics of literature, b...
Everyone knows fresh air is good for you, but it is hard to consolidate just how good time spent outside can be for you. It is goo...
We’ve roasted and carved the turkey, mashed the red potatoes, cooked the fresh snap green beans to a nice al dente crispness, serv...
Although people may tire of hearing me preach anti-smoking sermons, I rarely tire of warning them about the health dangers of toba...
The forthcoming and much-anticipated release of Wakanda Forever , the sequel to Black Panther , one of the most popular and honore...
Over the past several decades, as I posted last week, community foot races have become a standard part of breast cancer awareness ...
If it is a secret, it is the worst kept secret in the world. October has come to be known almost universally as breast cancer awar...
The effort to combat cancer occurs on many fronts: the cancer patient’s home, the medical clinic, the operating room, the infusion...
An experienced gardener, or anyone who cares for houseplants, knows the value of beneficial change. A plant may grow only so large...
The modern history of cancer care features many physicians, scientists, researchers, and lay champions, many of whom are deservedl...
Cancer is a fearsome, complicated disease. Even with all our knowledge, constantly expanding, there remain many aspects we don’t u...
Hardly a week passes in the normal flow of my patient care responsibilities without a visit to the hospital laboratory (which has ...
When CalvertHealth Oncology established an internet presence, the principal purpose of this effort was to enhance and extend the a...
As part of my recent series on cancer and nutrition, I invited Karen Mohn, CalvertHealth’s Registered Dietician who works with per...
In an earlier article - How May I Be Sure I’m Being Treated Correctly? - I explained the advantages getting a second opinion may a...
Receiving news of a cancer diagnosis alters your life. The evaluation process, the number of diagnostic procedures, the requiremen...
For several years, the Discovery Channel hosted a popular joint American-Australian television production called Mythbusters . Ada...
If you were to ask what the one action is a person can take to lower her risk of developing cancer by a significant amount, the an...
And you thought this was going to be about the musical “Oliver!” Some other time, perhaps. Few persons who visit this blog have li...
My last post to this blog drew attention to the annual observance of National Cancer Survivors Day. As I type these words on my la...
Music can define an era. To this day, swing and the big band sound evoke the 1940s. Groups such as the Beatles and the Rolling Sto...
Not every case of malignant melanoma is alike. Depending on the specific characteristics of the disease as it presents in an indiv...
My good friend and colleague, Dr. Faris Hawit, a board-certified dermatologist and Mohs micrographic surgeon who has practiced in ...
The poet T. S. Eliot famously wrote, “April is the cruelest month.” Although this is the first line of his most enigmatic poem, “T...
As part of Calvert Health System’s efforts in March to promote awareness about colorectal cancer, my colleague Dr. Arati Patel rec...
Several weeks ago, I noted in this space the recent conferring of the DAISY (“Diseases Attacking the Immune SYstem”) Award on the ...
What does it mean to treat a disease? The simplest sense is to restore normal health, to “fix” what is wrong, to make the disease ...
I continue our annual focus on colorectal cancer by writing about a little-known physician who contributed greatly to the growth i...
The 1950s and 1960s were the heyday of the classic western, both in the movies and on television. The great John Ford directed epi...
Raise your hand if you have ever played the “telephone game.” Form a line or circle with a sizeable group of people—a dozen or so,...
Colorectal cancer is one of those good news-bad news situations in modern oncology. The good news is that over the past 30 years d...
As body parts go, the colon and rectum lack glamor and appeal. They’re not likely to win any popularity polls or beauty contests. ...
As fictious rock bands go, The Archies did all right for themselves (my apologies if I shattered any cherished illusions in my fel...
Successful delivery of quality cancer health care requires the participation of many people: office receptionists, medical assista...
I indulge an occasional habit of scouring YouTube for scenes from old movies, particularly the classic musicals. A week or so ago,...
The oncology service at CHMC dedicates itself to providing the highest quality of care to our family members, neighbors, and frien...
Many groups and organizations dedicate themselves to achieving progress in the ongoing fight against cancer. One such organization...
Imagine hiking through an unfamiliar forest. Which is better? To try to blaze a useable path through the underbrush, hacking away ...
One of the most frequently asked questions that follow receiving a cancer diagnosis never appears on FAQ lists: Why me? In a small...
How can you think about and make important decisions about the kind of cancer care you want? What about other, often equally impor...
In this two-part post, I tie together some ideas I introduced in earlier pieces, specifically encouragement to ask questions, to l...
My previous post on the dramatic changes that have taken place in cancer care over the past 30 years was longer than most I’ve wri...
When I reflect back on nearly thirty years of clinical experience in medical oncology, the most striking feature is how different ...
When last we left the humoral theory of disease, it had survived the debunking efforts of Vesalius and Baillie. Black bile might n...
Humanity and cancer are old adversaries. The earliest descriptions of the disease appear in ancient Egyptian manuscripts, perhaps ...
Engaging the health care system often feels like travel to an exotic foreign country. The setting is unfamiliar, different from ho...
One fine, long-anticipated evening, you and your equally well-dressed partner settle into your plush red-velvet front row balcony ...
Hematology is the medical specialty having to do with the study and treatment of diseases of the blood and the organs that make bl...
Practically everyone remembers from high school that words ending in “ology” have to do with the study of something, joined to som...
Clear and useful communication has been called “the heart of the art of medicine.” More than just being a pleasing rhyme, this exp...