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Happy New Year! Looking Forward and Back

January 2, 2018Podcast2017, 2018, anticipation, New Year, ovarian cancer, podcast, REAL, Real Cancer, REAL with Diane McDaniel, reflectionDianeMcDaniel

At the start of the New Year, many people make a practice of reflecting on the year that is past and anticipating the year that is to come. These reflections are a story of what has happened to make us who we are, and our anticipations are a story of who we want to become in the New Year.

In keeping with the tradition of the season, in this episode host Diane McDaniel takes a quick look backward at 2017 and forward to 2018.

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Real Cancer to REAL

September 5, 2017Podcastcancer, conversation, creative, creativity, Diane McDaniel, life, living, name change, podcast, REAL, Real Cancer, realityDianeMcDaniel

Today’s episode marks an ending of sorts and a new beginning. It is a lacuna, an interval, a gap. One door is closing and another opens. Today’s episode is the space between the Real Cancer podcast and the REAL podcast.

REAL will continue to feature conversations with individuals who‘ve faced the humbling encounter with reality that is cancer, and it will also explore other ways in which we engage with reality in the lives we live. REAL will broaden out the focus, exploring each week—through conversations with creative people of every type—the biggest questions we face in life: What does it feel like to be alive? How can we live meaningfully? Given the complexity of life—good and bad, hard and easy, exhilarating and depressing—how do we get on with living?

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Jonathan Cohen: Deliberate, and Then Act

August 29, 2017Podcastcancer, creativity, curiosity, diagnosis, families, family, friendship, gastroenterology, health care, humility, innovation, MD Medical Navigators, medicine, ovarian cancer, patient advocate, patients, physician, Real Cancer, treatmentDianeMcDaniel

Jonathan Cohen is a gastroenterologist and founder of MD Medical Navigators. Jon discusses his attraction to the intensity of interactions between physicians, patients, and family, as well as the intellectual and emotional aspects of practicing medicine. He also talks about the desire to innovate and follow his curiosity, which is at the center of his personal approach to his profession. Jon discusses how his desire to explore from different perspectives, coupled with a keen sense of the need for humility, has led him to a new endeavor as an advocate for patients and families as they navigate their health care.

Today’s story is a personal one for the host of Real Cancer, as her friendship with this guest and his engagement with the search for a diagnosis led to treatment that saved her life.

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