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LAOP 2019 · No. 26
Joe Alvarnas
We don't treat diseases. We care for patients and their families, because families are as responsible for good outcomes as any of the most critical elements of what we do.
Joe Alvarnas
Joe Alvarnas keeps a 2012 cancer textbook on his desk as a reminder that following it today would be negligent. Medical knowledge once doubled every 50 years; by one estimate it now doubles in a matter of months. Treatment for multiple myeloma barely changed for 30 years, then three new drugs arrived in a single December. For a City of Hope physician, personalization is life or death, and the care is for patients and their families, never only the disease.
Read the Forbes columnTake the Conviction Diagnostic. In three minutes, see where you've traded who you are for who the room wanted, and exactly where to begin reclaiming it.
His story starts where reinvention did: a family that left everything behind for a new country and refused to call it loss. Cuban Roots →
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