There is nothing like a cancer diagnosis to shake up your day. I can say that wryly now, with the privilege of first person insight into the matter. In the third person, as a physician, there wasn’t an amusing moment in the few dozen times I have had to tell a patient they had cancer. That responsibility is probably the only task in my job description that edges out suturing a toddler’s face as the least pleasant part of being a doctor. It’s a gut punch, every time, on seeing that CT or MRI report confirming our fears; then the deep breath, finding the patient’s phone number, rehearsing, over…
Dr. Buzz Hollander, Seven Weeks to Live
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