“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.” PeopleTwoEndsSometimesFactsForgetExistenceDiseaseDoctorsTreatsCancerMidstAbstraction Book:The Siege of Cancer Source: The Siege of Cancer