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Some patients come with lung cancer; some people come with an abnormality. They leave
with a plan that day.
We see the patients, we discuss the care, we come up with the optimal answer for that
particular patient.
You know, when that patient leaves the office, they need to know this is what we're doing.
That, that's so important.
We have a multidisciplinary clinic, and all of the physicians that need to be involved
in seeing the patient that day will do that.
I've seen those patients just be so grateful. "OK, well I can handle this, and this is our
next step, and this is what I'm going to do."
Rush has been doing this kind of care, multidisciplinary, looking at all the different modalities, how
to best use them, for decades.
Somehow kind of the group is stronger than any one individually when we come together.
You know, I'm a better surgeon at the end of the day because of the team I've got.
You can't teach people to care or to have empathy or to put themselves in their patient's
and family's shoes, and everyone here does that.
One call, one day, one plan.
We're hopefully offering them a lifeline in hope and a plan that gets them back on track.
That day they're leaving a changed person.