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In 2015, Susan Massad joined the Write Treatment Creative Writing Workshops through Mount Sinai Hospital Cancer Centers in NYC where she was in treatment for cancer. The stories in this collection represent a fraction of her creative output over the last six years — spanning her growing-up years, medical career, navigation of several cancers, and life under COVID.

In 2015, Susan Massad joined the Write Treatment Creative Writing Workshops through Mount Sinai Hospital Cancer Centers in NYC where she was in treatment for cancer. The stories in this collection represent a fraction of her creative output over the last six years — and span her growing-up years, medical career, navigation of several cancers, and life under COVID.

Susan Massad, MD, is a retired physician with 51 years of practice and teaching in internal medicine, co-creator and leader (with Mary Fridley) of The Joy of Dementia (You Gotta Be Kidding!) and a founding member of Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice. In 2006, Susan launched a senior theatre workshop for the All Stars Project, and is a faculty member of the East Side Institute, where she leads conversations on health, wellness and growing older. She is the co-author of several articles on the Joy of Dementia, including a chapter that appears in the Applied Improvisation Mindset, published in August 2021. Susan has also written a play, Remember? Remember! that deals with aging and memory loss, as well as a short opera, The Crisis. A compilation of her medical writings Medicine Across Borders was recently published.