"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." Marcus Tullius Cicero
The patient was perhaps four years old and did not speak English. He tensed with fear as he and his family entered the procedure room[...]
After Debbie Sheppard was diagnosed with breast cancer, a friend brought her an apron and some small pillows. The gifts weren't for cooking and sleeping,[...]
Two months ago, they were strangers. Today, Ashley Sullivan, Jessie Brenholt and Kylie Harer call themselves the "proton beam triplets," sharing a bond not of[...]
Being diagnosed with a serious condition of any kind can open patients up to feelings of vulnerability as they face their own mortality. And for[...]
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Audra Popp came to Mayo Clinic as a patient. But one night last month, while out for a walk, the former labor and delivery nurse[...]
Liver cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among African men and the third leading cause among African women, according to the American Cancer[...]
"Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community." Anthony D'Angelo
He's not Tom Hanks. And he's certainly not stranded on a deserted island. But like Hanks’ character in the movie, “Cast Away,” Steve Hofstede does[...]
In 1956, Ed Schuck was deployed to Panama with the United States Army, working in communications. “We got the messages in from the White House”[...]