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“My own breath caught at the poignancy of the request. I remembered the first time I danced with my daughter, when she was only days old and I hugged her tight to my body, and the weddings we attended when she was the same age as my patient’s daughter. I would escort her to the dance floor as she carefully placed her pink sparkle shoes atop my staid black leather ones, while I raised and lowered them to the beat of the music. With the memory, I felt the gentle pressure of her weight on my toes.”
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Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS, shares a heart-breaking interaction with a patient, and why sometimes what’s meaningful to patients matters more than medicine, in this New York Times column.
Dr. Sekeres is Director of Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center’s Leukemia Program.
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