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One Oncologist’s Firsthand Experience with Serious Illness: What Your Patients Want

There’s really only one way to identify how patients are coping with serious illness: by asking them, according to Thomas J. Smith, MD, FACP, Director of Palliative Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD.

What Is a Navigator?

You have just been diagnosed with cancer, and one of the first people you meet on your healthcare team is introduced as a navigator. “A what?†you think. “I need doctors, not a GPS!†But over time, you will realize this person is a great guide. Because they are positioned [ Read More ]

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