Cancer Patients Working in Healthcare

12/09/21 • 70 min

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Show Notes:

We often get questions from healthcare workers asking how to effectively communicate with cancer patients without sounding like a cancer muggle. (Great question, nobody wants to be a cancer muggle) What better way to discuss this topic than to hear from cancer patients themselves who are now working in healthcare. In this episode, we’ll explore this unique crossover, specifically how personal experiences with cancer can impact work, how to manage on the job triggers, and advice for fellow patients interested in entering the healthcare field.

Resources:

Lindsay’s blog post - “To Every Cancer Patient I Ever Took Care Of: I’m Sorry. I Didn’t Get It”: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dear-every-cancer-patient-i-ever-took-care-of-im_b_58348345e4b050dfe61876d7

Elephants and Tea: http://elephantsandtea.com/

This episode of The Cancer Patient podcast was made possible by Send It Foundation. Send It provides free outdoor adventures such as skiing, surfing, mtn biking, and backpacking for young adult cancer survivors. The mission of the Send It Foundation is to inspire positivity, courage, and gratitude in young adult cancer survivors by creating a vital community through shared experience.

The Cancer Patient Podcast is hosted by Wendy Griffith and Carlo Lopez, produced by Layla Moheimani and engineered by Layla Moheimani and Isaiah Ashburn. Our executive producers are Katie Schou and Caroline Schou. Theme music written and performed by Heritage Park.

To keep up with The Cancer Patient podcast and additional content, follow us on Instagram @thecancerpatient and on Twitter @ogcancerpatient

Show Notes:

Resources:

Elephants and Tea: http://elephantsandtea.com/

To keep up with The Cancer Patient podcast and additional content, follow us on Instagram @thecancerpatient and on Twitter @ogcancerpatient

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Survivorship (Part 2)

We’re back with Part-2 of our Survivorship series, continuing the complex conversation about why cancer isn’t over when treatment ends. When we’re in survivor mode, we don’t think about what happens next after treatment ends. “It’s over for other people. It’s not over for us.”

The cancer fam responds to share their experiences and perspectives around the process of survivorship, mental health and managing expectations after treatment, the importance of cancer friends, and dealing with uncertainty.

Resources:

Survivorship Clinics:

https://www.cancer.org/health-care-professionals/national-cancer-survivorship-resource-center.html

https://www.mdanderson.org/patients-family/life-after-cancer.html

Defining “Survivorship”: https://canceradvocacy.org/defining-cancer-survivorship/

Making Memories Last: The Art of Legacy Work: https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/making-memories-last-the-art-of-legacy-work.h00-158673423.html

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Rising Strong by Brene Brown

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23317538-rising-strong

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-becomes-air

The Cancer Patient Podcast is produced by Layla Moheimani and engineered by Layla Moheimani and Isaiah Ashburn. Our executive producers are Katie Schou and Caroline Schou. Theme music written and performed by Heritage Park.

To keep up with The Cancer Patient podcast and additional content, follow us on Instagram @thecancerpatient and on Twitter @ogcancerpatient

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Survivorship (Part 3)

Cancer is not a one and done, nor is it over when treatment ends. Survivorship comes with so much uncertainty - there is no more plan and oftentimes no end in sight. On today’s episode of The Cancer Patient Podcast, we continue the series on Survivorship and dig deeper into the emotional toll and mental exhaustion of the cAnCeR jOuRnEy.

Resources:

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

The “New Normal”: https://healthtalk.unchealthcare.org/life-after-cancer-the-new-normal/

Cancer and Careers: https://www.cancerandcareers.org/en

Triage Cancer: https://triagecancer.org

Perspectives on the term “cancer survivor”: https://www.cancertodaymag.org/Pages/cancer-talk/Considering-the-Term-Cancer-Survivor.aspx

https://theconversation.com/people-diagnosed-with-cancer-often-dont-embrace-the-term-survivor-110942

https://www.annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-7534(19)37081-4/fulltext

To keep up with The Cancer Patient podcast and additional content, follow us on Instagram @thecancerpatient and on Twitter @ogcancerpatient