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October 10th, 2012
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Cancer doctor is also a cancer survivorEditor's note: In the Human Factor, we profile survivors who have overcome the odds. Confronting a life obstacle – injury, illness or other hardship – they tapped their inner strength and found resilience they didn't know they possessed. Dr. Alyssa Rieber has known since she was a child that she wanted to be a doctor. What type of doctor she became changed when she became a patient herself. A simple goal brought Alyssa Rieber to attend medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, 15 years ago. "Just helping people. And I know that sounds so trite and that's what everybody says, but that's really why I wanted to be a doctor was to help people." Rieber says she loved the movie "Doc Hollywood" with Michael J. Fox, in which a doctor is sentenced to work in a small-town hospital. "I was like, 'That's what I want to do.' So I was all ready to move out into a small town and take care of everybody and be the town doctor. And then during my first few months of med school, things shifted quite a bit (when) I was diagnosed with cancer." "Getting to know them and their stories ... I just decided that that's what I wanted to do." Rieber's cancer diagnosis was actually the result of an anatomy lesson, three months into medical school. Her class was discussing an esophageal cancer patient who had a lymph node in his neck. "I was assigned to evaluate the lymphatics of the thorax and so this was my assignment for this one case. And I did it, I gave a presentation, all of that." The next week, she felt a lump in the same place the patient had it. "Of course as a hypochondriac medical student, (I thought) I had esophageal cancer and I was going to die." It took a month before Rieber knew what exactly what she was dealing with. The diagnosis: Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph tissue found in the lymph nodes, spleen, liver, bone marrow and other sites, according to the National Institutes of Health. Rieber says she knew her prognosis was good and was determined to continue medical school while undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments. She went on to start a fellowship at one of the premier cancer centers in the world, the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and she's never left. She now heads the oncology department at Houston's Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) Hospital. Having been a cancer patient has influenced how she interacts with patients. "I understand how they feel with the nausea. I understand how they feel when they don't want to eat and their family is pressuring them to eat," Rieber says. "Some people I tell that I had cancer, and some people I don't. It just depends on if it's going to help them in the situation." Rieber admits her personal experience makes her treatment style a little different. "I cry with my patients. I laugh ... I feel like I'm more emotionally connected with the patients. I'm a hugger, I'm a crier, and everybody knows it. And they're all used to it. And I think the patients like it."
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I know Dr. Rieber and I didn't know she had cancer. She is a great caring physician!!!! What a great story.
yes, she is awesome! she's my boss, and i can honestly say i havent ever worked for a nicer person before!
Although cancer is a bad thing, a doctor who has had it, understands things only a cancer patient would understand. I had kidney cancer and three and a half years later I am cancer free. I had cryoablation and I recommend it for those who qualify.
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I'm the one in the video saying I had the same cancer (Hodgkin's Lymphoma)...
I've been cancer free for almost three years now. She was the first one to actually make me believe I was going to be fine, she was amazing.
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