Cancer Stories: The Art Of Oncology

Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology article, "Scotch and Pizza” by Dr. Paul Jansson, who is an Emergency and Critical Care Physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. The article is followed by an interview with Jansson and host Dr. Lidia Schapira. Dr Jansson share his perspective as a critical care physician and how one question can serve many purposes all at once. TRANSCRIPT Narrator: Scotch and Pizza, by Paul S. Jansson, MD, MS  “Would you tell me about J?,” I asked. What was she like? I made eye contact with one of her sons, who looked back at me, somewhat puzzled.  “You mean her illness?” he asked, quizzically. Immediately, I worried that I had lost the family, all sitting shoulder-to-shoulder in the cloistered conference room. No, I responded, can you tell me about J before the illness? What was she like? J came to the intensive care unit (ICU) in the early hours of the morning, only a few hours after making her way from the emergency department to the oncology ward. Admitted with a diagn