Gain of Function: Empathy for the Uncertain Patient With Cancer

The news came from the embassy. Chest x-rays were performed on all immigrants to screen for tuberculosis, and my father’s was markedly abnormal. A theologian with a masterful command of language, he would later write of “a tumorous excrescence of considerable magnitude and menace.”1(p403) But he described it to me, in terms comprehensible to his 8-year-old child, as a pineapple-sized cancer…

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