The Agony and the Ecstasy

When a physician becomes a patient, the experience can change everything. In this episode, Dr. Allyson Brooks, Executive Medical Director of Hoag's Women’s Health Institute, shares her deeply personal journey of receiving cancer treatment at Hoag — the same health system where she has spent years building programs designed to care for women in life’s most defining moments. From the shock of diagnosis to the vulnerability of sitting in the infusion chair, Dr. Brooks shares with Hoag Board Chair Robert Brunswick what it means to experience care from the other side — and how that perspective is shaping the future of women’s health. Together, they explore leadership, healing, and the profound trust involved in allowing others to care for you.