We must know how it is for that man or woman to sit in the chair in the office that countless other people have sat in and have someone take away whatever is left of their frail feeling of well-being with the news that this is not curable, and how it is for them to be rushed then into a technical and encouraging discussion of how it might be operable and treatable, before the news that it is not curable has even cooled enough to take some kind of shape inside them, before it has turned from news into knowledge and from test results into the rest of their life.
