Deming guides patients to embrace tough diagnosis and soar
...above and beyond cancer...
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Deming is a radiation oncologist and MercyOne Richard Deming Cancer Center director. In the bio on the center’s website, a quote from him stands out:
“Over the years, I’ve come to understand that my success in oncology owes more to my humanities education than math and science,” he says. “I could have taken 10 more calculus and organic chemistry classes, and I wouldn’t be a better cancer doctor. But more literature and philosophy? Those might enhance my ability to engage patients and their families in the really important psychological, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of approaching a diagnosis where mortality is front and center…”
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I wish more more people realized the benefits of the humanities and being well-rounded thinkers. . Iowans are urged to be career focused as early as middle school.