DD #182 - Specialty Focus: Oncology

Doctor Doctor

English - October 23, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutes - 72 MB - ★★★★★ - 214 ratings
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Previous Episode: DD #182 - Specialty Focus: Having and Treating Cancer

Next Episode: DD #183 - Solitary Confinement and Loneliness: Hurts the Body, Hurts the Soul

Oncologist and hematologist Dr. Bill McGarry talks about what it’s like to treat cancer, including why he chose the specialty, the biggest challenges, how cancer treatment and prevention has advanced, and how his faith guides him in his work. He also shares his own powerful story of having cancer twice and how prayer and medicine came together to heal him.

Suggested websites for patients:
https://www.nccn.org/patients/
https://www.cancer.net/
https://www.cancer.org/

Medical Trivia (Answer at 48:02) – The Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, among others, noted some tumors with swollen veins that reminded them of a particular animal. The name of this animal in Latin is ‘cancer’. What is the animal?

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