Medicine, humanity, and the stories between.

A Physician’s Space

for writing honestly about what it means to care for children with cancer—and to remain whole while doing is.

 

Dr. Rachel

Sisto

I'm a pediatric oncology hospitalist and assistant professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. My clinical work lives at the intersection of communication, presence, and the hardest conversations families ever have.

I write to make sense of what I witness — and to build something useful from it. My research focuses on how we communicate with families during cancer care, and I'm developing a narrative medicine curriculum for oncology trainees that I hope will change how the next generation of physicians hold grief.

 

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