June Goodfield - Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction,

Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat diseases but they also treat people, and this precondition of their professional existence sometimes pulls them in two directions at once.

- June Goodfield

source: June Goodfield (1975). “The Siege of Cancer”

topic: Cancer, Doctors, Two