What’s Next: Cancer As Inspiration for Career Changes

"Like many cancer survivors, you may now think of life as B.C. and A.C. — for, of course, before and after cancer. Once you’ve coped with cancer, life isn’t the same. Survivors talk about major and minor overhauls of their lives — from taking another look at their family life and other relationships to switching jobs, finding an entirely new career or pursuing new leisure activities. Our panel of experts: Page Tolbert, L.C.S.W., a social worker at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Post-Treatment Resource Program, New York; Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D., M.S.W., executive director of the National Association of Social Workers, Washington, D.C.; Bobbie Bernstein, the pseudonym for a cancer patient in New York whose life is changing; Debra Thaler-DeMers, a California cancer survivor turned oncology nurse; Susan Leigh, a three-time cancer survivor and oncology nurse consultant in Tucson, AZ. ...."

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