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palliative medicine specialist, life-curious, humorous existentialism
Jan 28, 2020 23 tweets 5 min read
Read in the SMH (smh.com.au/politics/feder…) that @GregHuntMP is about to announce funding for CAR-T cell subsidised therapy in Australia. Some thoughts about this (& economic justice for palliative care patients): a thread 1/ Firstly, cancer is scary. That’s not a rocket-science statement, it’s a bleeding obvious. When we experience a huge diagnosis, it’s a massive upheaval in life - and one that (most) people would do anything, pay anything, to make go away. 2/