Good Credit
This is another story about one of my favorite patients, my mother. She required heart surgery, so the night before surgery, I walked into her room....
Not a mark of tragedy, but a medal of triumph
This is a story about my good friend Steven, who had a below-the-knee leg amputation because of a rare medical condition. A few months later, I...
A Praying Mother
This is a story about my mom, who is my favorite patient. When I was a student at Howard University, I received a scholarship that covered some of...
Don’t give up, don’t give in, and don’t give out
My patient named Mr. Johnson is one of the most robust and happy men that I've ever known. Unfortunately, he had a very aggressive cancer that ate...
Praise God for What You’ve Got, Thank Jesus for What You’re Going to Get
One patient in particular was not really a patient of mine, but she was next door to my patient. I went in to see my patient and through the...
I’m Still Here!
A patient of mine unfortunately has stage 4 cancer of the throat, the larynx, which occluded his airway, so we had to emergently take him to...
Lord, Do It One More Time
One of my patients was a woman who had 6 previous cancers and she was sent to my office because she had a large right neck mass. When the biopsy...