Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO
@marklewismd
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Director, GI Oncology, @Intermountain. Interests: neuroendocrine tumors, cancer syndromes, empathy (even had a Whipple myself). Tweets my own.
Murray, UT
Joined September 2012
A patient who never smoked, never drank, and was fastidious about his diet died of cancer at 49. That patient was my father. He went to his grave not knowing he actually carried a genetic mutation that caused his fatal tumor. Virtue doesn't necessarily guarantee health. RIP Dad
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If visualization truly manifests results then I am starting my week as an oncologist picturing the death of cancer cells, LET’S GO
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Oncologists are constantly walking the tightrope between hope & hype but I like to think we are in an era of legitimate optimism where we can extend lives longer than ever before.
The odds didn’t look good when Gwen Orilio was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer. Ten years later, she’s still alive—and part of a new era of cancer treatment.
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“so factor XII is activated when it’s exposed to collagen, kallikrein, & high molecular weight kininogen, which in turn activates factor XI into XIa. With a calcium ion, factor XIa activates factor IX. Then, FIXa, FVIIIa, & calcium activate factor X…”
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“Sir, this is a Wendy’s”.
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Dante, Goethe, Homer, Tolstoy, Aristotle, Pushkin, Blake, Lermontov, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cellini, Thucydides, Tacitus, Montaigne, Virgil, Shakespeare, Stendhal, Cellini, Machiavelli, Melville, Milton, Conrad, Rimbaud and Hölderlin.
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The fax machine to US healthcare workers
AOL ends dial-up service after more than 30 years
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“Dad, what was it like when everyone’s respiratory rate was 20?”
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See also: embryology textbooks.
reading shakespeare for the first time is crazy because you go “oh that’s where that comes from” every other page.
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I find this to be a helpful mnemonic too
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John:
Luke’s Gospel record in itself is a miracle. I mean, the fact that a doctor had good enough handwriting for the text to be recorded, passed down, and translated? Astounding.
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Related: we aren’t “hiding the cure for cancer” (if we did have a panacea, then as a patient myself I would’ve taken it instead of having half my own pancreas removed along with a malignant tumor inside of it!)
People out there really think doctors don't want to "cure" you of disease because then we'll run out of patients. Buddy, there will always be people with disease. Every physician on earth could cure 40 people per day, every day, for 100 years, and guess what? There will still be.
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Reviewer #2’s personal affirmations:.
yes i'm a hater, but i hate with ethics, nuance, and critical analysis.
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“A surrogate endpoint is something a patient didn’t know was important until a doctor said it was” — @adamcifu.
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Every Christopher Nolan protagonist:.
me tryna remember if i actually said that or i’m being manipulated bc i have bad memory
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The adrenal glands:
Stop rushing in the morning. You’re starting your day in panic mode.
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“THIS IS NOT A BILL”.
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Today’s my Whipple-versary and I’m celebrating 8 years of being cancer-free by telling some of my patients that they too are cancer-free . This job is a beautiful feedback loop where my own health allows me to help others . But I also know I don’t “deserve” it. As my father said:
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RT @dr_yakupergun: Oxaliplatin in Stage II–III CRC: Age Matters. 🔹 Stage III, ≤70 yrs → OS benefit .🔹 Stage III, >70 yrs → No OS gain.🔹 Sta….
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