 Two of my friends out of seven very close friends are experiencing cancer. There's a part in the first part of your book that just jerked at my heart. I'm going to read it. I took a deep breath, bracing myself for the conversation to come. This is you writing. Patients often fear, as death approaches, that their doctor will give up on them, that we'll have nothing more to offer than we can no longer offer the hope of a cure.