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Social Influencers Advocating for Reliable Healthcare Information—Keep It Coming!
Continue readingWe 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 […]
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Snake Oil Revisited: Why We All Need to Think Like Scientists
Continue readingWe 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 […]
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Musings of a Medical Writer: Hope for the Undeclared?
Continue readingI 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 […]