Fwiw I hated when people said, “you’ll be ok you’re a fighter.” It’s helpful to some and meant sincerely, but I felt OBLIGATED to say, “I know” while thinking, “fuck that, my agency is limited to showing up before a surgeon cuts through my face to reach my brain stem.”https://twitter.com/mssarahradz/status/1127240676075130883 …
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Framing cancer treatment as a fight that the patient has agency in is hurtful to the patient and family, especially when that person does not survive. My mom died of cancer because the cancer was hard to treat, not because she didn't fight hard enough.
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I’m sorry about your mom, Dr. Rehrig.
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