BIOTECH AND PHARMANEWS

From WebMD’s CEO: In Remembrance of Kristy Hammam

Editor’s camouflage: Bob Brisco is the CEO of Net Manufacturers, the guardian company of WebMD.

Dec. 24, 2021 — We’ve misplaced Kristy Hammam, WebMD’s very prolonged time editor, to cancer.   She modified into handiest 50.

Kristy’s passing is now not smart.

She did as powerful to educate the general public about factual health as almost somebody, ever.  She took care of herself and her family.  Exercised.  Ate correct.  Got every cancer screening on agenda.  She modified into continuously certain, cherish sunshine.  The clinical odds and karmic gods had been continuously in her favor. 

When identified with breast cancer three years ago she embraced every originate of medicine— immunotherapy, radiation, chemo.  And it worked.  For a while.  Until it didn’t.

First and vital, it’s laborious to pull the lessons from Kristy’s existence.   Because it is miles now not smart.  She did all the pieces correct.  And accumulated, this.

But the lessons are there.  You fabricate the final word things in existence because they’re the final word things to fabricate in existence.  No longer because there are guarantees.  But because as a guardian and as a frontrunner, the percentages continuously subject.    Because you might want to well well maybe be a role model.  And since you might want to well well maybe be sparkling and intrepid to your core. 

Just a few month ago, Kristy flew from Atlanta to Washington DC, alone, to be along with her finest excellent friend.  Blind and compromised, nonetheless by no draw in point of fact, she flew as an unaccompanied minor. 

I don’t deem I’ve ever met somebody more adult than Kristy.  She continuously took responsibility.  She continuously made things better. 

I know I talk for all americans at WebMD when I allege we’ve misplaced surely one of our finest human beings. 

It will also simply now not ever develop sense.  But she wouldn’t decide it to exchange one thing about our mission, which modified into her mission too.

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