Oncologists Quotes

• Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Dying, Patient, Treatment

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• I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process, so it becomes a much more spiritual, psychological journey. Where people really could burn away what needs to be burned away. It's happening anyway. Why not frame it in a psychological way where it can serve as a transformation?

  Eve Ensler

  Spiritual, Believe, Journey

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• I really do think how we frame things determines so much of our experience, and I've been talking to a lot of oncologists, like, why don't we call them transformation suites and give people transformation juice and have guides that support people when they're going through chemo so you could actually burn away what needs to be burned away, as opposed to this dread, terror, horror, which is a very different experience.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Talking, Different Experiences

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• A study was done which shows the majority of oncologists who refer patients for chemotherapy for lung cancer would not themselves take chemotherapy for lung cancer. And in fact if the chemotherapy involved cis-platen, something like 75% of them said they wouldn't take it. But what do these people do all day long? They're sending people for cis-platen.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, Long, People

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• I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

  Marcia Wallace

  Cancer, People, Hard

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• They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

  Sean O'Grady

  Business, Special, Normal

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