Dr. Robert A. Nagourney - Rational Therapeutics - Blog
I sometimes joke with my patients that a new diagnosis of cancer
rarely provides them enough time to get an MD or PhD. Yet it is that
level of preparation that may be required to answer the myriad questions
that lie ahead.
Although it’s a joke, it is only partly in jest. Unlike buying a
house or a car for which one’s life experiences can prepare you,
medicine is opaque, complicated and ever changing. At the bleeding edge
of medical complexity sits medical oncology and its dizzying array of
genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenomics and metabolomics. Not
only is it difficult for patients to keep up with all the changes, it
is increasingly beyond the ken of their doctors who have spent entire
careers training in the specialty, many of whom may have an MD and a
PhD........
An ovarian cancer blog which includes quality resource materials: education, research, social networking, genetics and (some) healthcare politics.
“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Albert Einstein
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