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Poetry and Oncology
January 31, 2019

The Best Medicine

Gregory A. Abel, MD, MPH1
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  • 1Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
JAMA Oncol. 2019;5(3):350. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.6689
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Laughing with a patient
is like opening the dishwasher

after it has started
to add another plate inside:

whether it works out
depends a lot on your timing,

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Abel GA. The Best Medicine. JAMA Oncol. 2019;5(3):350. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.6689

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