At age 31, I was an ambitious physician and neuroscience researcher who reveled in discovery and glittering science projects. Then, slipping into a brain scanner one evening to take the place of a study subject who hadn't shown up, I was suddenly stripped of my white-coat status and thrown into the gray world of patients. The scan revealed a brain tumor that turned out to be cancer. … Back to Article
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