f an oncologist, infusion center nurse or any member of your medical team has asked you a question like that recently, you can thank Dr. Jimmie Holland, a pioneering psychiatrist who died Dec. 24 at the age of 89.
PUBLISHED March 23, 2018
San Francisco-based Heather Millar is a breast cancer survivor. A journalist for more than 25 years, she has covered health care and science for many national magazines and websites.
“How are your emotions today?”If an oncologist, infusion center nurse or any member of your medical team has asked you a question like that recently, you can thank Dr. Jimmie Holland, a pioneering psychiatrist who died Dec. 24 at the age of 89.
Holland rose from a rural Texas childhood to be the founder of the first psychiatry service in a major cancer hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
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