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Care Combined With Compassion
Spurs Successful Outcomes
Dr. Jason Hechtman’s Treatment Approach Treats Patients Like Family,
While Offering World-Class Cancer Care
Dr. Jason Hechtman has wanted to “What I try to do when I take care of patients is treat
fight cancer since he was a little boy, and everybody as I would my grandma, mother, or sister,”
a beloved family member’s bout with Hechtman explained. “I focus on how to talk and relate
the disease still inspires him today. His in that way, because family is the most important thing in
grandmother was diagnosed with breast everybody’s life. If you treat your patient like you would
cancer while he was young, and Hechtman treat your family, you can’t go wrong.”
felt helpless that he couldn’t take care of her. The fused relationship between TGH and USF Health
“My grandma was filled with life and has allowed Hechtman to utilize the research, expertise, and
vitality, and it was hard for me to watch the “environment of learning” that a university structure offers.
life slowly get taken out of her as she got “This environment breeds new avenues and openings,
more tired and became sicker and sicker,” but patients don’t always want to be bombarded with the
he said. “I didn’t know how to help her, so science because it gets confusing,” Hechtman explained.
as I grew up, I knew I wanted to become “So instead, I really enjoy getting to know my patients,
a doctor.” their parents, their children, what they do, what their likes
Hechtman is now on the medical staff and dislikes are, because we’re going on a journey together,
at Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and was and that journey is not going to be for a short time. When
an assistant professor of breast surgery at I take care of my patients, I take care of them forever.”
the University of South Florida (USF) Health Morsani
College of Medicine. He recently moved to Florida’s East
Coast and sees patients in West Palm Beach, Palm Springs,
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