Damn you, cancer. This week’s issue of the Medical Examiner focuses on how we break bad news to people, whether it’s a patient or our family. This beautiful short film asks, “What would you say to a loved one if you had only one chance to say it all?” "From 1994" Short Film from Casey Warren | MINDCASTLE on Vimeo. …
We go pink
But not for the whole issue. Just the box on page 1. But that box contains some very important information. It was even written by an oncologist. Read it. But don’t weep. Just get busy. It’s a key to cancer prevention. Speaking of which, boys and girls, October 7 is National Walk/Bike to School Day. Also in this issue, some …
This kills two birds with one stone. Not that we have anything against birds. Quite the contrary. But we always post a Public Service Announcement in this space every Tuesday. And today is the start of the #1 cancer awareness month of every year. Face it: no one even knows what other cancers go with what other months. We just …
A Breast Cancer Awareness Gallery
As October leaves us for another year, here is a gallery of breast cancer Public Service Announcements, ads, photographs and informational posters from various places around the world. They are clickable if you wish to enlarge any of them for easier reading. The fight against breast cancer is not an October fight. It’s a never-ending year-round battle – against all …
A shiny new issue, right here
Are you loving the Medical Examiner’s newly enhanced print quality? Same here. On the downside of our surge to ever more greatness, we never meant to drive Newsweek out of business. Honest. That was never our intention. But we must move on. What follows below is 16 pages of healthful chocolatey goodness, but without the chocolate: • Meet five courageous …
OCTOBER 5 ISSUE: Here
It’s never fun to have a typo in a headline, let alone the lead story on page one. For the record, the headline was supposed to be “Breast Cancer.” Well, it’s printed. Not a lot we can do about it now. We’ll just have to go with “Beat Cancer” which, upon further reflection, is not the worst typo we’ve ver …
Feel your boobies
That’s what an illustration on the back cover of this week’s Medical Examiner encourages. Trouble is, doctors say many women don’t know how to properly and effectively perform a breast self-exam. In this video, a doctor takes a patient through the steps of both how to do BSE correctly, as well as when it should be done. It’s different for …