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- "My Story"
  By P.J. Hamel
  
  Coverage of cancer is often about numbers: incidence figures, risk ratios, five-year survival percentages, mortality rates. All those numbers are, of course, important. But so, too, is every individual story that underlies the numbers. Here is one such story.
- "Patient Teachers"
  Turning medical students into doctors is a job that calls for scientific acumen, medical expertise, and lots of patience. And it calls for patients, too. Many students say that the most powerful lessons they learn—especially those about the importance of the human touch—are insights that they glean from patients. Here are several such sagas.
- "The Supply Side of Medicine"
  By Amos Esty
  
  How many doctors does the U.S. need? Many more, say some policy-makers, to address access problems and population trends. Not so, says a DMS researcher, who argues that churning out more doctors won't fix the problems and may make them worse. He and others call instead for a more rational payment system and better-organized planning to rectify current imbalances in the physician supply.
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Surviving cancer - Photo Gallery

Dani Ligett (left) and I bonded over our parallel cancer experiences. Here, we're girding ourselves to walk 20 kilometers in the 2008 Prouty. The first time I met Dani, courtesy of Dartmouth-Hitchcock's BeFriend program, she was lying in a hospital bed recovering from her mastectomy and reconstruction. We cleared the room so I could pull up my shirt and show her my reconstructed breast. We've been pals ever since.

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