The program speaker at our Aug. 16 Rotary Club of Edina meeting was Dr. Nancy Hutchison. She is a physician specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation and she is a national expert in helping patients recover from the physical side effects of cancer and cancer treatment. She is also wife of Rotarian Don Hutchison.
Rotarian Susan Stiles gave her Classification Talk at the meeting.
Click on the link below to see Barker writer Les Wanninger's observations of the meeting...
I have three primary observations of today’s meeting as a Past President. First, it’s important to have an outstanding and very informative speaker. More on the presentation later, but Dr. Nancy Hutchison gets an A+.
Second, each president should conduct his or her office in their own way to reflect their unique personality. Doing so helps achieve their overall objective of leaving Edina Rotary just a little bit better than the great club they inherited. I was very impressed with John Flynn's very creative multimedia conduct and introduction of the meeting. It was fun, informative and helped move the meeting along. Congratulations, John, and an A+ thus far in your tenure. Mick would be very proud!
Third, I was surprised to find that a tradition I initiated during my term to outlaw ties by the male members during the summer is now ignored even by our esteemed President. I guess times have changed to where a tie may be a nice change of pace to the informal business attire of the times.Dr. Nancy Hutchison is a founder in a fairly new field of medicine that focuses on preventive and medicine-based therapy for the many side effects from treating cancer. Dr. Hutchison’s team-based approach consists of medical specialists and therapists specifically trained in protocols to diagnose and prescribe therapies to address a wide variety of side effects from cancer surgery, chemotherapy and radiology. The therapies include physical, occupational and speech/cognition, which in many cases differ from the therapies to treat strokes and orthopedic problems and surgeries.
She described both the side effects and treatment approaches by relating the many experiences of her patient “Jennifer” who had breast cancer. I found myself hoping Jennifer is really a composite of several patients to serve as an illustration, because this poor woman went from one serious problem to another throughout about three years of treatment and surgeries. It seemed like something that would be too much for many people to handle. The good news is Jennifer was eventually able to return to her career thanks to outstanding treatment and support from Dr. Hutchison’s team.
