My Own Medicine Quotes

“I certainly don’t want to lose my hair. But, then again, I don’t want to have hairy cell leukemia. And I don’t want to lose my life to save my head of hair, which I know will grow back after the chemotherapy is done. That is, if I survive.”
― Geoffrey Kurland, My Own Medicine: A Doctor's Life as a Patient

“Only four weeks ago, despite the pain in my chest, I did a fifty-mile run and qualified for my ultimate goal, my personal Holy Grail: the Western States Endurance Run.”
― Geoffrey Kurland, My Own Medicine: A Doctor's Life as a Patient