You Are Only as Good as Your Team

"We will, we will rock you. " We Will Rock You, Queen, 1977


Mr. B's Medical Team

Dr. Vikas Bhushan

Education

  • Medical Doctorate

Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.

  • Residency in Internal Medicine

State University of New York at Stony Brook

  • Fellowship in Medical Oncology

Fred-Hutchison Cancer Research Center, University of Washington in Seattle.


Dr. John Mathews

Education

  • Fellowship in Blood and Marrow Transplant
    Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

  • Fellowship in Medical Oncology
    Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, TX

  • Residency in Internal Medicine
    Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, TX

  • Medical Doctorate
    American University of the Caribbean Medical School, St. Maarten


Dr. Estil Vance

Education

  • Medical Doctorate/Internship/Residency

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD

  • Fellowships

Harvard Medical School

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology.


Mr. B's Nurses & Support Staff



The Leukemia and Bone Marrow Transplant Center

There is something different about being on a floor where every patient has some variant of the same disease. You tend not to see things in terms of gender, race, wealth, religion or politics. You are either receiving chemotherapy or recovering.. You are waiting for a transplant or recovering. Everyone on the floor has the same goal: remission.

Quiet hours are 2-4 p.m., so I was surprised to hear clapping and cheering coming from the hallway. When I looked out, all the nurses were lined up cheering a transplant patient leaving the Center for home. They bring in a birthday cake after a transplant to celebrate the day the patient received a new chance at life. It is, both, heartwarming and hopeful to every patient in the Center, and we all hope the day comes when the celebration is ours.