{"id":7955,"date":"2017-08-27T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7955"},"modified":"2017-08-25T07:55:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T11:55:27","slug":"writing-your-way-through-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7955","title":{"rendered":"Writing Your Way Through Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Natalie Jacewicz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Earth, wind, sky, clouds, rocks<\/em><\/strong>
\nHave me,<\/em><\/strong>
\nIf you will.<\/em><\/strong>
\nThis body \u2014 no longer young<\/em><\/strong>
\nNot quite old.<\/em><\/strong>
\nFrom the Earth we come, (capital E)<\/em><\/strong>
\nTo the Earth we\u2019ll return.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When Lynn Scozzari wrote the beginning lines of that\u00a0poem, \u201cThe Offering,\u201d in 2013, she was staring at a photo of a naked woman seated on a rock, her arms thrust open to a valley below. Scozzari herself was in a conference room of the cancer center at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, Calif., seated at a table stocked with coffee and tissues. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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