When Professor Mark Glaser chose oncology as his medical field, it wasn’t a statement about death, but about life and the lengths he’s willing to go to preserve it. But not all his patients chose life at all costs. His most famous, a British parliamentarian, preferred to die in her glory —and it was up to him to keep it a secret.
Mark Glaser was a young aspiring medical student in the ’60s whose mind was set.
“I want to be an oncologist. Radiation therapy and cancer care” he told his mother excitedly.
She paled. “Yenne zach?”
Then as today cancer was the disease everyone feared most; she wouldn’t even mention it by name.
Sitting opposite Professor Glaser today I too am intrigued by the doctor’s choice of oncology. With so many routes open to medical students why cancer?
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