"Dad, you're a doctor." I say in a feeble voice, a lump forming in my throat. I try so hard to keep the tears at bay."As a doctor, you know that miracles happen all the time." I pause to tame the tears. "Maybe a miracle will happen this time. Maybe you should get treatment. You are the strongest man I know. You can kill cancer. Don't let cancer kill you.""Darling," he says softly. "I'm a doctor. And I know that optimism can't cure cancer. The placebo effect is pure bullshit. It happens once in a million cases and it's only used by nice doctors to give dying patients false hope. Now that I'm a patient who's a doctor, I prefer doctors telling me the truth. And they told me that I'm dying. So I believe them.""Then get other doctors.""They'll tell me the same thing.""Then get optimistic doctors who believe in the placebo effect. Maybe that's what you need. People who believe you can beat this thing." I turn to my mom. "Mom! Talk to him!""I have." She says. "There's nothing that can
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