NYTimes, Front Page, Sunday July 31, 2016
“Steve Cara expected to sail through the routine medical tests required to increase his life insurance in October 2014. But the results were devastating. He had lung cancer. Doctors told him it was inoperable.
His oncologist recommended an experimental treatment: immunotherapy. Uncertain, Mr. Cara sought a second opinion. A doctor at another major hospital read his scans and pathology report, and then asked what his doctor had advised. When the doctor heard the answer, Mr. Cara recalled, “he closed up the folder, handed it back to me and said, ‘Run back there as fast as you can.’”
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Just once I’d like to hear a criminal defense lawyer telling a defendant the same thing. If we want to be treated as professionals, let’s act like professionals.