The DEVELOPMENT of a strategic PLAN for CANCER prevention in medical schools that is supported by all stakeholders - including the medical community, government, the insurance industry, cancer advocacy groups and all those DEDICATED to cancer prevention - will be the key to inspiring patients to LIVE lifestyles that will decrease cancer risk.
Read MoreIf we include HEDONISTIC PHILOSOPHY in hospitals, the LIVES of patients suffering from cancer WOULD be MUCH, much better.
Read MoreWith the LOWER DRUG Costs Now Act, we are taking bold ACTION to level the playing field for American patients and taxpayers. This LEGISLATION is one that I am PROUD to have voted for, and the House can be proud to have passed. It is essential to save the lives of Americans and improve our quality of life.
Read MoreWhat I LEARNED from my work as a physician is that EVEN with the most COMPLICATED patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has TAUGHT me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.
Read MoreI had gone through a mother having dementia in the last couple of years of her LIFE. She was in a nursing facility in my little HOMETOWN area of northern ILLINOIS, so I got to see a lot of other patients there in various stages of the DISEASE. I had a firsthand exposure to it in a PRETTY big way.
Read MoreLosing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't MAKE me FEEL like a FAILURE as a physician, because I had LEARNED that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the SUFFERING of others.
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