Barrett Rollins

Barrett Rollins writes IN SICKNESS: A MEMOIR about his wife's death from breast cancer. Both were Harvard oncologists, her speciality studied the impact of medical interventions. The hook is that Jane, due to intense need for privacy, had hidden her cancer for ten years. Upon experiencing a pulmonary embolism, she was admitted to ICU. Included is some discussion of what is accomplished by current cancer treatments. And Jane's belief that patients are fooled into believing metastatic breast cancer can be cured.… (meer)