apex winner award of excellence 2024

Finalist (folio) eddie award for best column in healthcare 2019 and 2020

winner (folio) eddie award 2016

Since 2005, Dr. Harpham has been writing the View From the Other Side of the Stethscope column, short essays on common dilemmas in patient care. Each column offers insights on challenges patients face and tips for helping patients overcome them.

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Recent columns

Select Patient Handouts [More complete list at Patient Handouts : Oncology Times ]

Favorite columns

Healthy Survivorship and Hope

Book Reviews

A series on dealing with genetic inheritance

  • Patients' Genetic Inheritance Book review of A Cancer in the Family by Theodora Ross, MD

  • My Mutation Dr. Harpham shares what it was like to learn she carried a deleterious mutation.

  • Your Mutation A handout to help patients deal with the news that they carry a deleterious mutation

A series on managing uncertainty  

Personal Reflections

Compassion in Modern Medicine

Stopping Treatment