Paulette Mehta
She comes into my clinic, a stranger, and tells me she has cancer. I check her record, hear her story, feel for liver, spleen, and lymph nodes. She shares her feelings, her dreams, her fears, her hopes. She hugs me. From strangers to soulmates, we begin our sacred journey together.
Paulette Mehta M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of Hematology-Oncology in the Department of Internal Medicine at UAMS. She is also the editor-in-chief of Medicine and Medicine, and a staff hematologist/oncologist at the Central Arkansas Veterans healthcare system.