An N of One

Unless you are a visiting nurse or oncologist you might not have seen a breast that has been decimated by a cancer that ulcerates with relentless aggression through the skin. I am neither of those things, and I hadn ’t. I have worked in health care all of my life, as a physical therapist, then a developmental specialist, and now as a mental health professional. It was in none of those roles that I encountered this image, an image so graphic that it was too disturbing to include in this article. In June 2016, I received a call from my brother in London telling me that his wife’s triple negative breast cancer had returned and she had been given three months to live.
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Discussion Source Type: research