by Garth Sundem | Jul 2, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
Ben in his beloved Eldorado Canyon State Park. Photo: Rob Linnenberger. I met Ben Walburn at 4:00am on a slushy spring morning four years ago in a Boulder parking lot outside the house of a mutual friend, Adam. It was still dark and clouds spit little wet icicles as...
by Erika Matich | Jan 3, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
Tim Reagan saved Brady’s life, adopting the high-energy rescue dog from a shelter. Within a year, Brady returned the favor. “We were walking on the Friday after Thanksgiving in 2016 and in a rambunctious, playful way he jumped up and bit my arm and it felt really...
by CU Cancer Center | Jan 3, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
At 32 years old and 33 weeks pregnant, Emily Daniels lived the kind of life that many of us strive to achieve. With a baby boy on the way, a loving husband, a healthy and happy 3-year-old daughter, family and friends close by, a good job, and an active social life,...
by Taylor Abarca | Jan 3, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
Nearly a decade ago, a lightbulb went on in Christopher Lieu’s head. At the time, Dr. Lieu was in the beginning of his fellowship and the lightbulb was his recognition of a disturbing trend: More and more young people were being diagnosed with colon cancer. “I...
by Garth Sundem | Jan 3, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured
Richard Schulick was born in Rangoon, Burma, the capital city of the country now known as Myanmar, where his father was stationed as a diplomat with the U.S. State Department. A coup d’état had recently installed a military government, and it was a relief, about a...
by Garth Sundem | Jan 3, 2019 | C3 Magazine, Featured, Patient Care
The day before Joel Rutstein planned to leave for a week-long trip to Hawaii with his wife, Barbara, and their grown children, an oncologist in Fort Collins gave Joel bad news. In the course of his annual checkup, Joel’s primary care physician had noticed a trend of...
