Jordie Poncy is a clinical psychologist working at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. Just before he was supposed to start work, he was diagnosed with neuroendocrine carcinoma. His start date was delayed while he started his own treatment and he was worried about whether he could see patients while he was one himself. "I was really nervous about whether I could emotionally withstand it," he said.

But three months after starting his own treatment, he started seeing patients. "I think having meaning and purpose in this job has been a reason I have lasted longer than the two years

His patients finds him easy to relate to with one of them saying, "He truly understands what’s going on. And that’s such a comforting feeling for a patient like me who has a terminal disease. I have my good days and my bad, but so does he. So when we talk about my bad days, he can relate and he can give me great advice and we can really talk things through

Read more of Poncy's story here.