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Allison A. Fitzgerald

Allison A. Fitzgerald

Medical oncology fellow and physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute specializing in pancreatic cancer.

Sep 29, 2026

9:03
What made you, first of all, decide that you want to share your experience that you've had with your mom?
9:09
Yeah, I think, you know, there's a lot of aspects to it.
9:13
I actually didn't share any of it while she was sick.
9:17
I didn't post about it at all when I was going through the experience.
9:20
And I think because it was just too much, it was, you know, it would have been a lot of emotions and, you know, I needed time to process everything that was happening.
9:30
It was only after she had passed away about a month afterwards when I, and I knew I wanted to share with the public, but I just wasn't in a space to do it.
9:38
And I think it was just that, It is such a simultaneously unique, but also shared experience with other oncologists and physicians to go through this.
10:59
Um, how are you dealing with this? How are you able to get some support? How are you able to, um, I mean, how did you deal with the, with the, with the pain of, of having this?

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