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The other side of the sword

From Hijiya et al., JAMA 2007: Chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia is good. Very good. But it’s a two-edged sword. One side creates long-term cancer survivors. The other creates secondary malignancies in cancer survivors.

One of my two billable procedures

Well, since I’m a fellow, I don’t bill for them yet. The other procedure, of course, is a lumbar puncture.