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How to Talk to Your Doctor: Shared Decision-Making in Lung Cancer Care

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    If a patient sees their physician and they say, 'I'm kind of tired,' if that is where it ends... you might very well just say, just keep going with your drug. But if you say, 'If you were at a hundred percent before we started this drug, where do you think you are now?'—that changes the conversation.

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    I've been so impressed that patients get great advice from other patients and sometimes maybe even better advice than from their own providers because they're talking to patients who are living with the same side effects.

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