Story In The New Yorker

If any of you get the chance there is a really good artical in the New Yorker (if you go to www.newyorker.com it's on the website too) called A Man Of Taste by. D.T. Max from May 12th.  It's about a chef in New York that had stage 4 tongue cancer and how he fights to save his taste.  It's a long read (9 pages) but worth the time it takes to read the whole thing. 

- Amy

A very good article indeed. It brings much needed awareness to a subject a great deal of the population doesn't care to think about or wants to avoid entirely.

A lot more people are becoming aware of cancer prevention, treatment and survivorship because more and more of the population is being diagnosed with cancer. It's not so much that we have increased incidences of cancer today, it is the testing that has gotten better and treatment is readily available in most cases.

Cancer's true impact is not felt until it becomes personal and becomes a reality to those new patients and their families. Most of us pretend it only happens to other people.

If you get the chance, visit my blog about my personal battle to stay creative in complexity - battling head and neck cancer at:  http://www.psiplex.com

Thanks for bringing the article to light. 

On 5/17/2008 psiplex wrote:

A very good article indeed. It brings much needed awareness to a subject a great deal of the population doesn't care to think about or wants to avoid entirely.

A lot more people are becoming aware of cancer prevention, treatment and survivorship because more and more of the population is being diagnosed with cancer. It's not so much that we have increased incidences of cancer today, it is the testing that has gotten better and treatment is readily available in most cases.

Cancer's true impact is not felt until it becomes personal and becomes a reality to those new patients and their families. Most of us pretend it only happens to other people.

If you get the chance, visit my blog about my personal battle to stay creative in complexity - battling head and neck cancer at:  http://www.psiplex.com

Thanks for bringing the article to light. 

Psiplex, I enjoyed your blog and advertisement logos. I'll share this with my 16 year old--she has a career interest in advertisement.

As for your experience recorded in your blog with health care professionals who blew their opportunity to experience the true rewards of their job---I'm sorry. It is the early recognition of someone suffering, connecting and becoming  insynchrony with that person, and doing everything possible to relieve the suffering that makes the profession rewarding---the artistry of empathy. Some "butt-nuggets" just don't get it---there is not one person who signed up for a disease!!

DeniseB

On 5/16/2008 Amynmiami wrote:

If any of you get the chance there is a really good artical in the New Yorker (if you go to www.newyorker.com it's on the website too) called A Man Of Taste by. D.T. Max from May 12th.  It's about a chef in New York that had stage 4 tongue cancer and how he fights to save his taste.  It's a long read (9 pages) but worth the time it takes to read the whole thing. 

- Amy

Thanks Amy,

Enjoyed the article. So many things rang true including the long time to make the correct diagnosis.  And how hard it is for people to understand what it feels like to have your taste damaged or gone.  D. 

A