Creating an environment where patients are allowed and encouraged to tell their illness story is a crucial yet often overlooked component of cultural competence in healthcare settings. A factor that ...

For decades, cancer awareness has been recognized by the colorful ribbons signifying the months dedicated to specific diseases. Breast cancer is one of the most popular ones — with pink ribbons ...

The government’s initiative for meaningful use of electronic health records has fueled the demand for discrete, structured and actionable clinical data. As part of this initiative, healthcare ...

A dozen third-year medical students sat around a conference table with me for an hour-long narrative medicine workshop. They had just finished their internal medicine clerkship at the university ...

Incidence, timing, and severity of anemia with dose-dense breast cancer adjuvant chemotherapy No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2005 ASCO ...

TALKING CURE: Students at the Mountain Area Health Education Center learn to seek the stories of their patients and not just their health data, says CEO Dr. Jeff Heck, who will be presenting at the ...

Cheryl overdosed on heroin — or so she’d hoped — the night before. But that’s not the reason she’s in the emergency department late the next day with me sitting at her gurney, confused. She woke up ...

A quality improvement initiative to improve fertility counseling and referral procedures for cancer patients at a university cancer center. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Annual ...