[Magdalen] Cold caps in chemotherapy
Roger Stokes
roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
Wed Aug 19 21:21:30 UTC 2015
On 19/08/2015 20:45, Jay Weigel wrote:
> One of the finest doctors I ever dealt with on end-of-life issues was an
> internal medicine doc who wasn't terribly well respected locally (partly
> because he was rather free with pain meds), but he proved to be amazingly
> sympathetic to his elderly and terminal patients. It wasn't until I'd had
> several of them that I learned that he was dealing with his own mortality;
> he had Hepatitis C and was on the list for a liver transplant. He never did
> get the transplant, and he died a few years later.
A doctor who could understand from his own experience that quality of
life matters more than quamtity.
Roger
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