Doctor What if it Were Your Mother?

<p>Dr. Victor Vogel is an oncologist who has been caring for women with breast cancer and doing clinical research in breast oncology for thirty years. He has sustained life-threatening and disabling illnesses. He has endured the death of his mother when he was a young oncologist and wrestled with the limits of medical care. A lifelong Christian he has struggled with the challenges of answering questions about suffering and death for his patients his family and his friends. He is an ordained Presbyterian elder and a member of the board of directors of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He has edited two medical textbooks is the author of hundreds of professional articles and editorials was a medical school professor for twenty-two years and has traveled and lectured on four continents. He has appeared on national news broadcasts and has been quoted in the New York Times. He has been married for thirty-six years to a pediatrician is the father of two children and has two grandchildren.</p>