Grateful for her husband’s life-saving care, she vowed to get a job at Fred Hutch

In this episode of From Bench to Bedside and Beyond, Tiffany Bucklin talks about her husband’s treatment for leukemia
Video by Stefan Muehleis / Fred Hutch News Service

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When Tiffany Bucklin’s husband was treated for acute myeloid leukemia at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Bucklin was impressed when the staff greeted her family with warm smiles and the nurse remembered their kids’ names. “We never felt like just another patient,” she said.

In this episode, Bucklin connects the personalized care her entire family received with her determination to land a job at Fred Hutch, one way or another.

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Bonnie Rochman is a senior editor and writer at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. A former health and parenting writer for Time, she has written a popular science book about genetics, "The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We Have." Reach her at brochman@fredhutch.org.

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