Blue Book
Stacy Nigliazzo
October 30, 2020
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Days before she died
my mother stood in line,
took a picture for a passport—
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Five Years to a Cure
Ellen Diamond
August 24, 2012
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Ellen Diamond
Recently, while reading a post in an online chat group for people with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), I spotted an intriguing comment. At an important conference, a world-renowned hematologist had referred to a “five-year timeline” for a cure.
This took me back fourteen years, to when I’d just been diagnosed with CLL. There was a Gilda’s Club
An Intern’s Guilt
Anna Kaltsas
December 11, 2009
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Anna Kaltsas
“She’s been here for two months already. She’s very complicated; you’re going to be spending a lot of time with her and her family,” my fellow intern said as she began signing out her patients to me.
It was my first rotation in the medical intensive care unit, and I was terrified. I was in my first few months as a “real” practicing physician–a title that I still felt uncomfortable with. If a