The Cancer Stories You Never Hear

Girl suffering from leukemia in her room at a hospital. (Antoine Gyori/Sygma via Getty Images)
I’m often asked why I would spend my career focused on the unpredictable, unrelenting misery of cancer. Here’s why.
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Recently, some residents asked me why I had chosen my medical specialty.
“Why oncology?”
Why indeed…
The truth about life is that so often it is a chance encounter, an uncertain leap that takes us into the careers we “choose.” My own story of how I came to become a hematologist-oncologist is full of the randomness of my own life.
That’s not what they were a…
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