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Opinion: Memorial Sloan Kettering, you’ve betrayed my trust

I've been a patient at @sloan_kettering and now volunteer there. I feel betrayed by ethical lapses by its staff members.

I trusted Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and believed in it. For more than 30 years, my family and I have literally put our lives in its hands. But it has betrayed my trust and that of many other patients and their families.

Over the course of three decades, my mother, sister, and I have been treated in the hospital’s operating rooms, clinics, and infusion centers. Each of us received top-notch care from the center’s oncologists and surgeons, and I feel without equivocation that I owe my 34 years of cancer survivorship to those doctors. In many ways, Memorial Sloan Kettering has been like family.

I said as much this past June when I had the honor to be the keynote speaker at the 45th annual celebration

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