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51精品视频 Nursing alumna Theresa Brown publishes memoir about cancer

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51精品视频 alum Theresa Brown (NURS 鈥07) published a new memoir, 鈥.鈥

Brown spent her career taking care of cancer patients, and as a hospice nurse, she had tough conversations with patients and their families. But none of that prepared her for her own breast cancer diagnosis in 2017.

Brown said as a nurse, she had expectations of what her diagnosis and treatment would be like. She assumed order and organization, but instead was left finding her own doctors and getting her own answers about whether she needed important procedures like chemotherapy. Brown said the lack of compassion was surprising and appalling.

Brown also wrote the New York Times Bestselling book, 鈥.鈥