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BACK of the BOOK Heard in the Blogosphere Tell us why you ♥ hematology! Eric Topol @EricTopol Newspaper headlines that don’t seem very reassuring Phil Marshall, MD @PhilMarshallMD “It’s not a big stretch to imagine our knowledge in health care being crowdsourced – but sometimes you just need a doctor.” -- @Bob_Wachter Jenna Haverfield, PhD @DrHaverfield The world needs science. Science needs women. Full stop. #womeninscience It‘s good to see those armies of colourful cells in variable shapes and sizes, yet it is the same red blood running across all races. Truly amazing. —Anita Jain I love hematology because 14 years later, I‘m still alive. It doesn’t get better than that. —Dianne Witter It’s the perfect combination to integrate clinical and basic knowledge. The biology of being human. —Leonardo Cano Cevallos A Problem with How We Treat Cancer – and How to Fix It How Much Would You Pay for a Year of Life? “Why not encourage young scientists to reach out to everyone interested in supporting scientific research? If Hollywood can crowdfund indie movies, surely a doctoral candidate could raise money for cutting-edge research.” “As a society, we’re going to have to reach an understanding of what that cutpoint is – because we can’t afford not to. People ask, ‘What’s the value of a human life?’ The answer is, ‘That’s a complicated question, but a really important one, because nobody thinks it is infinite.’” —Michael S. Malone, MBA, in The Wall Street Journal “If medical establishments are not offering psychosocial health care to their patients, they are not wholly treating cancer. And if our doctors and nurses are truly not taking care of the whole patient, should they be treating us at all?” The Disappearing Young Scientists —Leonard Saltz, MD, on WNYC’s Radiolab —Cindy Finch in The LA Times 52 ASH Clinical News March 2015