CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Becoming a patient changed the way Dr. Catherine Henry thinks about medicine.
The retired Cleveland Clinic physician said years of practicing internal medicine taught her that serious illness could be overwhelming. Living through a rare blood disorder herself showed her what that feeling was actually like.
“You don’t know how feeling medically overwhelmed feels until it happens to you or somebody you love,” Henry said. “You can only put yourself in somebody else’s shoes so much.”…