Wouldn't it be nice if all doctors viewed us as individuals, with our own assets and shortcomings, personalities and idiosyncrasies instead of just a disease..... While some do - most, perhaps to prevent the psychic debris of knowing a potentially dying person too well - choose to not. My name is Brian, I am not your 9AM neck dissection tomorrow......

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.