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HAOP 2023 · No. 04
Ed Kim, MD
Physician-in-Chief and SVP, City of Hope Orange County (at the time of recording)
If you don't have empathy, do not enter this field. If you are going to be in front of people, you absolutely have to have empathy.
Ed Kim, MD
Ed Kim never planned to be a doctor. When he was in eighth grade, his 12-year-old brother Donald died suddenly from complications of Kawasaki disease, and that loss set the course of his life. Today he treats lung cancer and is particular about words: a person with cancer, not a cancer patient, and treatments fail patients, never the reverse. Ed also explained why survivors need help finding a new normal once treatment ends.
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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