As a parent of an athlete in contact sports, I was horrified by Damar Hamlin’s collapse on the football field this past Monday. Amidst my prayers for his recovery, I spent some time trying to grasp what happened on the field. Of course, the initial videos and reactions were best guesses. I watched some interesting…
Spread ’em! I mean please don’t spread ’em! AKA: COVID-19, Contagiousness, and Isolation Time As a person in the field of medical education, my day-to-day personal life as a human being with an interest in COVID-19 (which is most of us) is colliding with my professional one as a medical educator. What to do? Take…
We recently lost one of the giants in advocacy, Valerie (Val) Guild of AIM at Melanoma, to cancer. I am rethinking many of our conversations, trying to solidify all the pearls of wisdom that she dropped on a seemingly daily basis. A few years ago in my conversations with Val, she mentioned that a retired…
We are revamping the science curriculum at my son’s school, and I am probably overzealous in my passion to help our kids learn about the scientific process and get them excited about thinking scientifically/critically. Working in both medical and patient education in oncology, I am acutely aware of how challenging it is for patients to…
I always admired those kids who knew what they wanted to do in life from the time they were five years old. Wow, how awesome and admirable to know what you want, define that path, and work the plan to get there. That wasn’t the case for me. My problem was that it was all…