The power of hope.

My patient was in his late 20s and dying of an advanced sarcoma. He came to our institution seeking a miracle-a cure for his incurable cancer. Despite second and third opinions, he never relinquished his hope that science would cure him. In this story, I explore how hope allowed my patient, and others like him, to reclaim their narratives and maintain their personhood in the face of serious illness.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Cell

• Publication date

  2023-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2022.12.029PMID 37059059
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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