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Two Childhood Cancer Survivors Share Unbreakable Bond at Children’s Hospital New Orleans

Daily Nurse

She was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in October 2011 and was 12 years old when she went through nine months of chemo and several surgeries and was Shinn’s patient. She was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma in May 1987 and finished treatment shortly before her ninth birthday.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. So even before I became a physician, pain was something that really sort of shaped me as a human being, as a person and then as a physician.

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