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Oncology nursing one of most emotionally difficult professions

Nurses who provide care to cancer patients do some of the most emotionally difficult work there is in medicine. This week on WRVO's health and wellness show "Take Care," hosts Lorraine Rapp and Linda Lowen interview Pattie Jakel, a clinical nurse specialist in the Oncology Program at the UCLA Santa Monica Hospital in California. They discuss the ethical dilemmas oncology nurses often confront.

More of this interview can be heard on "Take Care," WRVO's health and wellness snow this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Support for this story comes from the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York.

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