Moonshots
A weekly column from Dr. Sukumar Ethirajan about the history of cancer, the business of cancer, and the systems built around HOPE.
Close to the matter
Telling the Story
Like Paul Harvey’s(Aurandt) “The rest of the story.” Or “Plum”—P. G.Wodehouse’s (Pelham Glenville Wodehouse) columns, or other great storytellers of the past.
After 33 years of various startups, initiatives, and experiments in the practice of medicine, I am taking on an “exciting and terrifying step” (to quote David Brooks of The New York Times)—to start one more new thing, a blissfully new chapter: “The Raconteur.”
Here is to the beginning of the “Time Machine” of various Cancer Moonshots. The history of cancer, the
business of cancer, and the systems built around HOPE.
This Time Machine is not an escape from the present. It is a way to see how the present was made — and how it might be remade.