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Welcome to Canada: A Survival Guide for Americans Fleeing Their Democracy
Because when the neighbour’s house is on fire, the least you can do is offer them a snow shovel and a beer.
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Newly Diagnosed? Cancer Is Not a Personal Growth Opportunity. The Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me.
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In Cancer Care, The Following Words Are Permanently Banned: Wellness, Journey, Warrior, Battle, Stay Positive, Holistic, Empowered…
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Hospice Nurses AND Caregivers: The People Who Stay in the Room
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Starting at the End: A "Patient First" Future for Cancer Care
By hans casteels, who used to design futures for companies. Then he became a customer of contemporary cancer care.
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The People Who Keep Babies Alive While the Rest of Us Panic
By Hans Casteels who is grateful he didn't get the coat hanger treatment from his unwed mother in 1950's catholic Belgium.
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A Brief History of Ownership, Boats, and Other Convenient Amnesias
By Hans casteels who does NOT describe to history only when it’s convenient, preferably white, or how America explains why theft only counts when other…
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What IF... Corporate HR ran the Cancer Clinic
By Hans Casteels, who has survived cancer, hot flashes, hospital coffee, and the English language. Though only barely in the case of the language.
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Why Cancer Care Is Afraid of the Smart Kid Who Did the Homework
By Hans Casteels, who is increasingly baffled by a medical system that distrusts better math but remains deeply committed to very expensive guesswork.
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How to Tell People You Have Cancer (A Field Guide for the Recently Diagnosed and Emotionally Ambushed)
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Dammit. I Said It. The Words I Vowed To Never, Ever Use: " When I was Young..."
by Hans Casteels. The older he gets, the better he was.
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Welcome to Dispatch from the Oncology Underground. Prostate cancer, medical absurdity, and the slow-motion collapse of dignity, served with a side of dark humour and the occasional tofu recipe.
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