A prognosis of thyroid most cancers, adopted quickly after by prostate most cancers, positioned him in an unfamiliar function: the affected person.
As a surgeon, Steven had spent his profession serving to others. All of a sudden discovering himself on the opposite aspect of care was an adjustment and he knew he didn’t need to be passive within the course of.
“As a surgeon who doesn’t actually like to sit down nonetheless, I needed to do one thing in addition to simply be a affected person,” Steven mentioned. “I’ve spent my life taking good care of most cancers, and now that I’ve it myself, I felt like not less than one thing good might come from it.”
He stored coming again to that thought: “one thing good.”
