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Robin Schoenthaler aims to bring clarity to our chaos and maybe meaning to the madness. Through thoughtful essays, articles and stories, she engages her audience on topics ranging from cancer and Covid to parenting and purpose.
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Robin Schoenthaler, MD is a cancer doctor, mother, writer, traveler, and storyteller. Raised and reared in California, Robin moved to Boston in 1992 for a long career as a cancer doctor working with patients at Massachusetts General and Emerson Hospitals. During that time she also became a solo parent, a writer, a better friend and family member, and a global citizen. Through the stories of thousands of patients and readers, she has developed a unique perspective on medicine, parenting, pandemics, being human and the circle of life.
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Lessons in Medicine, Mortality, and Reflexive Verbs
Originally published in the New England Journal of MedicineEverywhere I turned during my clerkships and in-ternship at a county hospital in southern California, I heard Spanish. My classmates and I came from places like Long Island and Kentucky and often had terrible...
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