Editor's Note: Debra Sherman died of cancer in April 2014. We were honored to have known her and to share her blogs about  her cancer journey with Center for Health Journalism Digital readers.

I've been with Reuters since 1994 and have covered health for the last 12 years, focusing on medical technology. I am currently based in Chicago. Before getting on the health beat (my favorite), I covered U.S. stock, commodity and deriviative markets. I also covered the British stock market in the late 1990s while working for Reuters in London.