A guide to giving bad news to patients
The massive magnets of the MRI radiate fields through her brain, scanning veins, arteries and every millimeter of cortex. Grey and white matter, containing all she is and all she ever will be, identified, cataloged, mapped. Two centimeters under the front of her skull, just to the left of center, there is an abnormality; a one centimeter mass surrounded by swelling. The lung cancer has spread, metastasized. Really bad news.
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