The title of the medical memoir by John Graham-Pole “Journeys with a Thousand Heroes: A Child Oncologist’s Story” borrows from Joseph Campbell’s concept of the hero’s journey—one that we must all undertake in our lives. “But my writing doesn’t highlight any heroic journey of my own, but rather that the countless children I served over my forty-year career as a children’s cancer specialist—the heroism, resilience, and joyfulness of those “thousand heroes”, who were my teachers and my friends.”