Patient & Researcher Blog

Here I aim to capture what I am learning as a newbie researcher from a patient perspective.

Living with a slow growing brain cancer

It is taboo for researchers to talk about their work before it is published.

I think that’s a bummer.

My favorite part about research is learning new things in real time. Here I share my observations as a learner and my n of 1 (personal) findings as a patient.

Note: I started blogging about brain cancer in 2008, at age 29.

I had no background or knowledge about healthcare when I began. Please excuse typos and other misconceptions. What you read here is me in real time, like a time capsule.

There are more than 500 posts here. Use this search to look for something specific. Good luck!

Liz Salmi 8/18/20 Liz Salmi 8/18/20

Nobody knows you’re a patient: Getting used to identifying as a researcher

This sense of being an outsider is due in part to imposter syndrome, and in part due to not having many people who look like me in research. And by “look like me,” I mean people who successfully entered the realm of research through a nontraditional path… as a patient first.