Newsletters

I hope you have been enjoying your subscription to “And What Else…?”As I plan upcoming issues, I’d like to make sure I’m focusing on the topics that are most useful to you.I’ve created a brief survey…

In this month’s newsletter, I’ll spotlight three unique video series you may not have already found on my website (www.janetabrahm.com).  Each addresses one of the following topics: To create the first two, I interviewed expert…

I attended the ASCO Annual meeting this month and thought I would share the updates in the area of Supportive/ Palliative care. Before I do that, I’d like to start off by congratulating a 2026…

This month, I encountered a woman with metastatic breast cancer whose pain presented a challenge to her oncology team. The key to helping her, as is often the case, was to ask ourselves, “Where is…

For this month’s newsletter, I interviewed Dr. James Tulsky about serious illness conversations. Dr. Tulsky is an internationally recognized leader in clinician–patient communication and supportive oncology. He is the Poorvu Jaffe Chair of the Department…

With this newsletter moving to Substack, it felt like the right moment to return to Pain & Symptom Management. Much of my work begins when “the usual” approaches fall short, where standard strategies don’t bring…

Early in my career, an injury from a fall on black ice led to years of intermittent, often debilitating pain—and it quietly shaped how I came to see my patients. Living with pain taught me…

As a hypnosis practitioner, I have experienced the unexpected capacity of my patient’s brains to modify pain, nausea, anxiety, and other causes of their distress. When I heard how psychedelic assisted therapy could relieve or even…

The concept of mind over matter has been close to my heart since the earliest days of my training in hematology and oncology in the 1980s. My patients were suffering pain, cancer or treatment-induced nausea…