Barton Kamen

What happens when doctors become patients?

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About Barton Kamen

Kamen received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, and served his residency and fellowship in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology and pharmacology at Yale University, New Haven, CT.

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The pediatrician talks about how his own rare tumor changed his approach to medicine, and offers advice on how to be a good patient.

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