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The Cheerful Oncologist

"Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours." -Sir William Osler

March 30, 2007

Things You Don't Want to Hear, Part III

Category: Humor

Things you don't want to hear in the Operating Room: 1. "My wife made this incredible cabbage and baked bean casserole last night." 2. "Doctor, why is there an "X" on the patient's other leg?" 3. "Nurse, would you bring...

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March 29, 2007

Do You Know Your BMI? Do You Even Want to Know?

Category: Commentary

How long, O Lord, must I pontificate about the dangers of obesity until the nation repents its evil ways?

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March 28, 2007

Update on Tony Snow's Recurrent Colon Cancer

Category: Commentary

We, just like the patients sitting before us, want more time out of this life on Earth. Our interests are aligned - it is now up to both of us to make something good happen.

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March 27, 2007

Another Public Figure Stricken with Relapsed Cancer

Category: Commentary

This is like reminding the nation that the average survival of patients who refuse to ingest solid and liquid refreshments is only three days.

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March 26, 2007

Chocolate Without Sugar? Sacrilege!

Category: Commentary

Egad! Are they prepared to deal with the outrage we members of Chocolate Forever are about to unleash on the scientific community?

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March 25, 2007

The Sunday Night Poem - Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenburg

Category: Literary

There's nothing like falling in love and then dying of consumption to inspire one to write sublimely, if not in a hurry.

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March 23, 2007

Best of the Cheerful Oncologist - The Sales Pitch, Part II

Category: Humor

Today, however, unless I was ready to squeeze through the laboratory window, which might have created a stir from the pedestrians below, I was trapped.

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March 22, 2007

What Does It Mean to Have 'Relapsed Breast Cancer?'

Category: Commentary

I just heard the news that Elizabeth Edwards has been diagnosed with a recurrence of her breast cancer and wanted to let ScienceBlogs readers know what information we medical oncologists look for in this situation.

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March 21, 2007

Best of The Cheerful Oncologist - "The Sales Pitch, Part I"

Category: Humor

I looked forward to this luncheon with the same amount of zeal Richard III would have if invited to a picnic on Bosworth Field.

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March 19, 2007

We'll Be Right Back After These Messages

Category: Commentary

Oh, the agony of having to go on Spring Break (with the family, of course).

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