title: Compassion in the workplace? Discrimination against an employee with cancer.
abstract: Rachel is a designer based in the UK. In the following account, she describes the experiences of her colleague Jack, designer and studio manager, during his battles with colon cancer and with his employers. The article raises the issues of difficulties faced in the workplace by patients with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D006113:United Kingdom; D017132:Workplace