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TOnight, I was watching "Remaking American Medicine" on the local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate.  The series caught my eye a couple of weeks ago, since I'm looking at the medical field as a preferred change-of-career over the next dozen years or so.  It'll take that long for me to get a BS degree and move on to medical school...  Anyway, that's not the point.

One of the patients profiled in tonight's episode (PROGRAM 4 - "HAND IN HAND")  made my heart ache.  She was a 13-year old young lady, diagnosed with ovarian cancer.  Her treatment included hysterectomy (and, though not stated, probably bilateral/"both side" oophorectomy, which is the surgical removal of ovaries) and chemotherapy.  As devastating and life-altering as the diagnosis and treatment were for this young lady, that's not what sucker-punched me.

I have a 13-year old daughter.  In the instant that the show stated what the diagnosis was, I couldn't help but imagine my daughter and family having to come to terms with the same thing, God forbid.  I can't help but have a prayer for the patient, her family, and all others like her.

How could I not?