Personalized Medicine

To help manage the stress of treating people with life-threatening diseases, doctors are trained to limit the emotions they invest in patients.

As young oncologists, Dr. Rachna Shroff and Dr. Nina Shah followed professional protocol by the book. They kept patients at an arm's length, in fear of blurring what they felt was an important line between doctor and friend. That all changed when each of their roles were reversed; the doctors became daughters to a parent with cancer.

In this episode of Your Stories, the friends and colleagues discuss how their experiences on the other side of the bench inspired changes in the relationships they allow themselves to develop with patients.