How A Nurse’s Perceptions Changed When She Became the Patient

In the March issue of D Magazine, Online Editorial Director Matt Goodman—the fella’ who used to run the very site you’re on now—has a good one on nurse Kathleen Shuey. One of five clinical nurse specialists at Baylor University Medical Center, near downtown Dallas, Shuey has spent her professional life researching and fighting cancer. In January of 2015, however, a mammogram and biopsy found that the disease had struck Shuey herself. She had breast cancer. The story dips into Shuey’s career path and all the ways, big and small, that her perception of cancer and cancer treatment changed once she was the one on the bed. You can find Matt’s story online here.