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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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Omicron Update: We’ve Learned a Lot in Two Months. But We’re Still in the Soup

by Dr. Robin Schoenthaler | Jan 23, 2022 | COVID

Week-end update: 11,000 cases/day in the US in June, 802,000 cases last Sunday, 706,000 today But you know what? Cases don’t really matter any more: there’s huge undercounting because of the gajillion unreported at-home tests and we know Omicron is getting past our...