by Dr. Kathleen T. Ruddy | Oct 23, 2018
The patient is not real, but her cancer is. Rita is 75 years old. She felt a small, hard lump in her left breast one month ago. Her most recent screening mammogram was done last February and was considered completely normal. There is no history of breast cancer in...
by Dr. Kathleen T. Ruddy | Oct 9, 2018
The following patient is not real but her cancer is. Rochelle couldn’t have been healthier or more content. She’d graduated from the University of Virginia summa cum laude. Her major was International Relations. Her father worked for the CIA in Langley,...
by Dr. Kathleen T. Ruddy | Oct 4, 2018
The patient described below is fictitious, but the cancer is real. Two months ago when it was as hot in Kansas as any place in India, a 39 year-old woman noticed that her left breast felt sore when she bent over her bathroom sink one morning to brush her teeth. She...
by Dr. Kathleen T. Ruddy | Apr 16, 2018
I was shocked to learn that the largest portion of the cost of healthcare is now borne by patients. Not the insurance companies. Not the employers. Not the government. The largest portion of all healthcare costs lands with a splat on the wallets, checking...
by Dr. Kathleen T. Ruddy | Jan 11, 2017
Good question! Thanks for asking it, Stephie Zimmerman of the Anti-cancer Club. Stephie is an oncology nurse and a childhood cancer survivor, and a razor-sharp interviewer. She asked me this question yesterday when we were discussing the preventive breast cancer...
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