DESPITE ALL MY RAGE I AM STILL JUST A

Becoming a licensed cosmetologist in my state requires *1600* hours of training at an accredited beauty school

I am supportive of NPs as partners in extending care but you are weakening, not strengthening the case for their clinical competence (1/20th of Gladwell's 'mastery'?!)

In my training was taught that 'KRAS is undruggable' but that's no longer true (and makes me increasingly inclined to look for actionable targets in PDAC in particular) #pancsm

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.Tyler Johnson, a gifted writer in his own right, pays posthumous tribute to the selfless words of Melissa Inouye, who strenuously rejected the notion that “good people” are immune to “bad things” and framed her corporeal affliction as a “sacred struggle”

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👀 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

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Brb, just need to have an impromptu Bible study on the Book of Revelation for no particular reason

'Having experienced suffering, one develops power over it -- not the power to stop it, or take it away from someone you love, but to know its sorrows fade ... On the other side of suffering is strength.'
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#ASCO24 garnered a record number of abstract submissions!

Preview the abstract titles to see what will be presented or published at this year’s meeting and browse the meeting program to start planning your schedule ➡️ brnw.ch/21wJ8kD

Rick Rubin apparently moonlights as a “peer” reviewer for medical insurance disputes

Introducing Journal of Clinical Oncology Oncology Advances. Humbled to be among the editors. We are welcoming articles. ASCO

I know patients have scanxiety but so do oncologists. Every time I open a new scan report of a patient on surveillance, I hold my breath and leap with joy when I read “no findings of locally recurrent or metastatic disease”.

The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time

My late father wrote that our birth certificates don't come stamped with a guarantee of the threescore years and ten foretold by the Psalmist; he died at 49

One of my late patients (who died at 44) writes that we have an obligation to continue the legacy of those gone too soon

This is how one of my patients described chemo cycles and oh my — it is one thing to know the pharmacology and to chart at a safe remove the nadir in blood counts, but it is entirely another to have the embodied experience of actually going through treatment’s ups & downs

Some people emit light even as they walk through the valley of the shadow of death

Melissa was one of those luminaries

May she truly rest in peace

#ayacsm #crcsm sltrib.com/religion/2024/…

Sorry to brag, just had a genius idea for a cartoon: Bluey but for kids