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1 Amy Ford has been a practicing PA for 11 years. She has left her job providing psychiatric services to oncology patients and currently divides her time between family medicine and addiction psychiatry. Although she works on the prevention side of cancer now, she has poignant memories of the lives that touched hers in cancer care. The author has disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
1 Amy Ford has been a practicing PA for 11 years. She has left her job providing psychiatric services to oncology patients and currently divides her time between family medicine and addiction psychiatry. Although she works on the prevention side of cancer now, she has poignant memories of the lives that touched hers in cancer care. The author has disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.