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Engaged Patient

An Update: Thanksgiving in Canada

Editor’s Note: I’m happy to relay further good news from Bill Gardner. In a recent post, he reports that his latest CT scan showed no evidence of cancer. As described in the post below, Gardner has been receiving immunotherapy known to help a small percentage of patients with  recurrent head and neck cancer. He is […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

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Engaged Patient

Thanksgiving in Canada

I hadn’t seen a new post in Bill Gardner’s Cancer Journal since late July and was growing concerned. So, I was relieved and moved by the essay he posted last week, in which he notes Canadian Thanksgiving and supplies some backstory on his recent throat cancer treatment. The news is good, all things considered, and his […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

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Engaged Patient

Hopeful News from Bill Gardner

I’m happy to report hopeful news from Bill Gardner, whose story I’ve been following and relaying in Engaging Patients since he shared his cancer diagnosis more than a year ago. When I last wrote about Bill’s posts, which appear on the Incidental Economist blog, he had just learned that his throat cancer is incurable. His […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

Check out my: Twitter