{"id":74194,"date":"2017-12-07T01:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T09:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/siddhartha-mukherjee-meets-henry-marsh-when-do-you-stop-treating-a-patient-at-100"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:42","slug":"siddhartha-mukherjee-meets-henry-marsh-when-do-you-stop-treating-a-patient-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/siddhartha-mukherjee-meets-henry-marsh-when-do-you-stop-treating-a-patient-at-100","title":{"rendered":"Siddhartha Mukherjee meets Henry Marsh: \u2018When do you stop treating a patient? At 100?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/siddhartha-mukherjee-meets-henry-marsh-when-do-you-stop-treating-a-patient-at-100.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mukherjee is now 47 and lives in New York; Marsh, 67, lives in Oxford. To different extents both of these doctors still practise in their respective fields \u2013 Mukherjee at Columbia University\u2019s cancer centre, Marsh as a visiting doctor at various hospitals around the world, including in Kathmandu in Nepal. Both men have continued to write: Marsh a second volume of autobiography, called Admissions, published this year, and Mukherjee a study of genetics called The Gene: An Intimate History, published last year. When they sat down to talk to each other over Skype one Saturday afternoon in November, they began with a subject on which their two lifelong disciplines overlap: the treatment of brain cancer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The cancer specialist and the neurosurgeon talk about treating cancer, writing and facing death in their own families by <a rel=\"author\" class=\"\" itemprop=\"sameAs\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/tomlamont\"> Tom Lamont<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/dec\/02\/siddhartha-mukherjee-henry-marsh-treating-patient-cancer?CMP=fb_gu\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/dec\/02\/siddhar...?CMP=fb_gu<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mukherjee is now 47 and lives in New York; Marsh, 67, lives in Oxford. To different extents both of these doctors still practise in their respective fields \u2013 Mukherjee at Columbia University\u2019s cancer centre, Marsh as a visiting doctor at various hospitals around the world, including in Kathmandu in Nepal. Both men have continued to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74205,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74194\/revisions\/74205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}