John Leifer: After You Hear It's Cancer

06/23/19 • 24 min

John Leifer discusses a variety of topics including PTSD and PSA anxiety in prostate cancer patients, trends and complications within the healthcare world, and his advice that Steve takes to heart and passes on to his newly-diagnosed friends. John is a consultant whose clients range from national health systems to pharmaceutical firms to state government and runs the gamut of major constituents comprising the care delivery and financing system.

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