Meet Dr. Hari Deshpande
July 27, 2021Meet Dr. Hari Deshpande
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Dr. Hari Deshpande discusses his care of patients with sarcomas, thyroid cancers, and unknown primary cancers, and how he works with his team to help reassure patients.
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- 00:00My name is Harry Deshpande.
- 00:04I'm in, I'm a medical oncologist
- 00:07at the Yale Cancer Center.
- 00:09The patients that I see here are patients
- 00:12with sarcomas and thyroid cancer,
- 00:14and I also see patients who have
- 00:17cancers of unknown primary.
- 00:19When I left medical school,
- 00:21I actually wanted to do something
- 00:24called infectious disease.
- 00:25But then I realized after my first rotation
- 00:29in oncology that I loved the subject.
- 00:32I really enjoyed working with the patience.
- 00:35With the staff, the nurses,
- 00:37the researchers,
- 00:38the attending physicians,
- 00:40and I knew then that I wanted to do
- 00:43on koleji many of my patients are
- 00:46very scared they haven't heard of
- 00:49sarcomas or even thyroid cancers,
- 00:52and so they don't know what to expect,
- 00:55and this is probably the main part of
- 00:59my job and the team that I work with.
- 01:03I have an excellent set of practice nurses.
- 01:07And treatment nurses who I work
- 01:09with and they spend a lot of time
- 01:12with the patients guiding them
- 01:14through their treatments,
- 01:16which can be very complex.
- 01:18I mainly do what's called clinical research,
- 01:21though that doesn't involve going into a lab.
- 01:25It doesn't involve test tubes or
- 01:27anything like that,
- 01:28but what I do do is.
- 01:32Often try to see if new
- 01:35medicines that are either.
- 01:37Given to us by pharmaceutical
- 01:40companies or through the National
- 01:42Cancer Institute are useful
- 01:44against various conditions.
- 01:46In my case it would be sarcomas
- 01:49or thyroid cancers.