About this Event
Fourth-year medical student Kishan Patel shares his cancer journey in this candid lecture and conversation event. Cancer isn’t something that starts and finishes, it’s something that you live with. My message is that patients are humans, too. Treating patients like humans will make them want to be treated and come back to see you. It will help build the patient-clinician relationship that we hear about in the curriculum but aren’t really taught how to encourage. Ever since I was diagnosed and went through cancer, I’ve had a more positive outlook in life. I hope that by sharing my perspective and experience, it will encourage others to have a more positive outlook, too, especially in professional/graduate school when life is already hard.
This talk is open to all students and faculty/staff from all health professions fields and programs. Dinner provided.
Credit available for the Asano Humanities & Health Certificate. Learn more here.
Questions? Contact Kirsten Bowen, Humanities Program Coordinator, at [email protected].
Event venue & nearby stays
Connelly Auditorium, Dorrance H. Hamilton Building, Philadelphia, United States
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