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Hard Cases: When the Influence of a Patient’s Former Doctor Lingers

In a field with no one right answer, a doctor must deal with patients’ wanting a course of action that the doctor finds perplexing, if not wrong.








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Well: Anxiety Lingers Long After Cancer

A new analysis finds that within two years of a cancer diagnosis, the pervasiveness of depression in patients and their spouses tends to drop back to roughly the same levels as in the general population, only to be replaced by another mind-demon: anxiety, which can even intensify as time passes.

    




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