It is a pleasure to give patients favorable medical news. It’s an even greater pleasure to receive it. Technology has replaced so much of our wholesome and human interactions. Book stores are disappearing. Handwritten thank you notes? Nearly extinct. The corner hardware store where the owner knows your family? Today, we have Big Box warehouses where, if you hire a private investigator, you might be able to find a hiding salesman. Need a salesman? Hire Sherlock! The joy and relief that a patient and family feel when the physician says that all will be well has no technological equivalent. We have all had anxiety about our own health or the well-being of those we care about. When the physician enters the room to deliver news, there is fear and tension knowing that lives may change after just a few sentences are uttered. Fortunately, the vast majority of the news I deliver is just what patients and families want to hear. The biopsy result was benign. The
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