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Monday, September 05, 2005

New York Times/Aug 16th, 2005: In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift From Person to Patient



Stop being a good girl, she says; you've got a mouth; you should use it. Have someone with you at all meetings with doctors, if possible. And take notes.

"Otherwise," she said, "you cease being a person and become 'the carcinoma in Room B-2,' like I was."

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