When catastrophic illness strikes, someone close to the patient—a spouse, child, grandchild, or close friend—inevitably joins that patient on the arduous journey through treatment and recovery. Surprisingly, health-care professionals largely acknowledge that personal caregivers have more influence over the patient’s experience in the short … Read more…
Hope is a strange commodity. When we don't need it, we rarely think about it.
But when we need it, we need as much as we can get. So it is for people who
are dealing with cancer.
As a chaplain for the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, author and pastor
Michael S. Barry has an insider's understanding of the cancer patient… Read more…