title: The best greeting: "we've waiting for you".
abstract: In this essay, Leah Kinnaird describes an experience she had as a breast cancer patient and how a simple greeting can trigger a paradigm shift. The meaning of time to cancer patients is the underlying theme.
authors.affiliation: Creative Health Care Management, USA. LKinnaird@CHCM.com
authors.forename: Leah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kinnaird
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings; D008016:Life Change Events; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013998:Time Perception