It is with a good deal of trepidation that I start any new medication in my patients who are very old, for fear of disrupting the myriad forces of genetics and environment that have allowed them to live so long.
Author Archives: By MIKKAEL A. SEKERES, M.D.
Numbers in the Cancer Fight
We cling to numbers because there’s so little we really can control in cancer.
In Sickness and in Health
People make sacrifices for each other when it comes to health, just as they do with family and careers. When both partners develop cancer, it is no exception.
In Sickness and in Health
People make sacrifices for each other when it comes to health, just as they do with family and careers. When both partners develop cancer, it is no exception.
The Doctor Gets V.I.P. Treatment
Before I knew it I was getting the V.I.P. treatment: given a private room, sent for a lot of tests, strapped to a cardiac monitor overnight and visited by several consultants and the hospital president.
Life Beyond the Cancer Clinic
An oncologist realizes his training in treating cancer has given him only limited insight into how the disease impacts his patients’ lives.
Letters to the Doctor
I suspect that family members sometimes send doctors letters because they aren’t sure they had done everything they could to help prevent a loved one’s death.
Letters to the Doctor
I suspect that family members sometimes send doctors letters because they aren’t sure they had done everything they could to help prevent a loved one’s death.
What Our Patients Can Teach Us
A critical component to true health care reform is in changing our core expectations about the use of heroic measures at the end of life.
Trusting the Doctor
In the end, aren’t most of our major life decisions based simply on trust?