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SearchA patient’s mental preparedness counts
Often, a cancer diagnosis imparts a sense of urgency — a desire on the part of the patient to begin treatment as soon as possible, to vanquish their disease and resume a normal life.
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But what does a physician do when a patient isn’t ready?
In his latest New York Times column, Cleveland Clinic hematologist/oncologist Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS, recounts how he responded to a patient who was hesitant about starting chemotherapy
Read the full column here.
Dr. Sekeres, Director of Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center’s Leukemia Program and Vice-chair for Clinical Research, writes regularly for the Times and other publications about his experiences as an oncologist. You can follow him on Twitter @MikkaelSekeres.
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