Every cancer patient grapples with what is truly important. To bear witness to their attitude can put one\u2019s own life in perspective<\/p>\n
Tell me, what else should I have done? The writer in me marvels at how Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer prize winning poet, captures so accurately the question at the heart of so many of my conversations with my patients. Young and old, curable and incurable, in remission and on the edge of death; every cancer is as different as its management. But, of course, what lies just underneath the convoluted medical discussions is a quest for meaning.<\/p>\n Ranjana Srivastava is an Australian oncologist, award-winning author and Fulbright scholar. Her latest book is called A Better Death<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every cancer patient grapples with what is truly important. To bear witness to their attitude can put one\u2019s own life in perspective Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn\u2019t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Doesn\u2019t everything die at last, and too soon?
\n Tell me, what is it you plan to do
\n with your one wild and precious life?<\/em><\/p>\n