A 2022 JAMA report found that nearly 60% of patients with terminal cancer thought their cancer could be cured.

This is not a reflection on our patients.  This is a direct reflection of our own failings as healthcare professionals.

And it starts with our own discomfort in discussing death & dying.

We owe it to our patients to have difficult conversations.  

In this episode, I’m bringing back my interview with Dr. Liz O’Riordan, the breast surgeon who got breast cancer & host of Don’t Ignore The Elephant Podcast.

Liz encourages us to have difficult conversations by having them first ourselves.  Listen in to learn how.

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