Author: Ola Hadaya

Ola Hadaya (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer

Wayne State University School of Medicine


Class of 2016




A Patient in Denial: Is the System at Fault?

I’ve come to realize having an automatic word filter is one of my greatest blessings. It becomes quite useful when, in the middle of rounds, a patient’s single, monosyllabic response inspires such a flurry of mismatched curse words that only a properly formed filter can save my dignity. What exactly did this patient say that stunned me so violently? My attending had asked him a straightforward, albeit grim, question. “Do you know you have cancer?” …

Ola Hadaya (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer

Wayne State University School of Medicine


Class of 2016