"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
My archives are located at Archives of the Cheerful Oncologist, Volume 2
September 27, 2007
Category: Commentary
Is it reasonable now to add "contributing to the risk of breast cancer" to the list of accusations against Big Alcohol?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:15 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2007
Category: Footnotes
It is difficult to express the sorrow that washed over me when I saw that cruel word.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 5:11 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 2007
Category: Commentary
How do we report this in such a way as to not offend those Americans who are addicted to eating more than their body requires?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 20, 2007
Category: Humor
Usually autopsists are more precoccupied with such tasks as shoveling the brains into a plastic bag or playing kick-the-can with the detached leg.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 1:29 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 18, 2007
Category: Humor
6. "She said she was still constipated so I gave her an extra dose."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 6:15 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 17, 2007
Category: Commentary
"Don't just automatically let a medical provider sell you on a treatment that has absolutely no chance to prevent your death from Hodgkin lymphoma. Why settle for any outcome less than total cure?"
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:48 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 13, 2007
Category: Patient Advocacy
In 18 years of practice I have never seen a death from an overdose of narcotics. This is the difference between taking narcotics for cancer-related pain compared to a headache.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:12 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 11, 2007
Category: Commentary
"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:31 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 10, 2007
Category: Health Care Policy
If I wasn't such a sweetheart I would dial me up right now and give myself a tongue-lashing for daring to let a drug company pay for my chèvre chaud sur toast et sa salade.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:22 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 9, 2007
Category: Commentary
It would seem logical that one might also be at risk of a heart attack if a close family member just had the same. Yes, quite logical, even indubitable, my dear Watson.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 5:00 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 6, 2007
Category: Patient Advocacy
"Listen, your job is to tell the patient what the deal is, okay? Leave the inspriational stuff to the Padre."
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:03 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 4, 2007
Category: Footnotes
While admitting her I could hear the distant thunder and tried to prepare her as best I could, but the fury of her pneumonia still shocked us both when it hit.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:15 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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