by John Leifer | Jul 20, 2015 | Cancer, Healthcare, Medical Error, Physicians, Transparency
Dr. Farid Fata, a Michigan hematologist oncologist, is simply the latest in a long list of physicians who have betrayed the trust of their patients, bilked the federal government of millions of dollars, and caused unnecessary pain and suffering for thousands upon...
by John Leifer | Jul 6, 2015 | Cancer, Healthcare, Hope
“When you hear the word ‘cancer,’ it’s as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don’t know where to start.” —Regina Brett[i] A diagnosis of cancer can be...
by John Leifer | May 28, 2015 | Cancer, Healthcare, Healthcare reform, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical
Beyond the caring rhetoric carefully crafted by providers of cancer treatment and therapeutics, there exists a motivation every bit as powerful as saving lives — reaping billions of dollars in profit. That’s what is at stake in the ongoing war on cancer...
by John Leifer | May 19, 2015 | Cancer
For Recently Diagnosed Cancer Patients and Their Families There is one piece of advice that Lori and I offer without equivocation to newly diagnosed cancer patients – slow down…take your foot off of the accelerator, and realize that you have begun a journey not a...
by John Leifer | Mar 23, 2015 | Cancer, end of life care, End of Life Issues, Hope
Sometimes writing has a strange way of foreshadowing life. The past six months have been marked by an almost constant struggle to shape an unwieldy manuscript on hope at the end of life into something manageable and hopefully meaningful. I finally relinquished the...
by John Leifer | May 30, 2014 | Cancer, Healthcare, Healthcare reform
There is a fascinating article in a recently published, special edition of Forbes detailing efforts by Novartis to become the leading force in cancer therapeutics. The article begins with a powerful and poignant story in which a breakthrough therapy brings a new lease...
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