{"id":2719,"date":"2018-06-22T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solariscancercare.org.au\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2018-06-22T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T04:59:00","slug":"treating-cancer-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/06\/22\/treating-cancer-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating cancer differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-3fa3ul-StyledParagraph enqfv0t0\">Australian cricket coach Justin Langer calls him \u201cthe Saint\u201d. His patients refer to him as a hero. But to many of his medical colleagues in WA, haematologist Dr David Joske remains an unsettling enigma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3fa3ul-StyledParagraph enqfv0t0\">He is, after all, the man who 16 years ago invited a coterie of \u201cquackery\u201d into their evidence-based world. David\u2019s initiative to provide free complementary therapies to cancer patients in hospital \u2014 a project that came to be known as Solaris Cancer Care \u2014 met with ripples of concern among the medical fraternity at the time. Whispers in the corridors. Sternly worded letters from surgical colleagues. Even a nomination from the Australian Skeptics\u2019 Association for the Most Preposterous Piece of Pseudo-Scientific Piffle, in 2003.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thewest.com.au\/lifestyle\/health-wellbeing\/treating-cancer-differently-ng-b88803872z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&lt;read full story&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>media and images published by The West Australian, published 22 June 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian cricket coach Justin Langer calls him \u201cthe Saint\u201d. His patients refer to him as a hero. But to many of his medical colleagues in WA, haematologist Dr David Joske remains an unsettling enigma. He is, after all, the man who 16 years ago invited a coterie of \u201cquackery\u201d into their evidence-based world. David\u2019s initiative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[653],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-solariscare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaris.nicoleking.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}