Sympathy is the missing art in medicine
I still remember when my phone rang with an eerie sound, early in December 2013. The oncologist I had seen a couple of days earlier was on the other end asking me to return to the hospital ASAP because my bone marrow biopsy results was consistent with acute leukemia and I was at risk of bleeding.
That was the first time I knew about my diagnosis while he merely broke the …
Sympathy is the missing art in medicine
