Howard M. Spiro

TL;DR: One‐hundred‐ninety‐four eligible and evaluable patients with histologically confirmed locally unresectable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were randomly assigned to therapy with high‐dose radiation therapy alone, to moderate‐dose (4000 rads) radiation + 5‐fluorouracil (5‐FU), and to high‐ dose radiation plus 5‐FU.

TL;DR: Arthur Frank, a sociologist at the University of Calgary, has survived several diseases and has joined what he terms the "remission society," people who have been sick and are now well but who can never be completely cured.

TL;DR: Conversations about experiences, discussions of patients and their human stories, more leisure and unstructured contemplation of the humanities help physicians to cherish empathy and to retain their passion.

TL;DR: In patients who did well after operation there was improvement in resting lower-esophageal-sphincter pressures and absence of gastroesophagal reflux, and the relative increases in p phincter pressure to graded increases in gastric pressure, however, remained abnormal in all but one patient.

TL;DR: This study shows the necessity for standardization of reporting methods and some authors who claim the most effective palliation by pancreatic resection have the highest mortality rates.