grounding his approach in his intuitive understanding that “the worst suffering is the one you cannot share. And a cancer patient usually feels that suffering twice over. Because he cannot share the anguish of sickness with those around him and because beneath this pain lies another, more ancient one, dating back to childhood, and it, too, has never been shared, never been seen. And that is the worst of fates: never to have been seen, never to have been acknowledged.”

