How My Friend Kent Helped His Patient Heal Her Cancer

Sometimes the best medicine is a doctor's time, attention, and thoughtful insight

When my friend, whom I’ll call Kent, was in his third year of studying medicine, he worked at the clinic associated with his medical school.

One of his patients had recently had a class 4 Pap smear and was then diagnosed with cervical cancer.

She’d been told she needed a hysterectomy in order to keep the cancer in her cervix from spreading to other part…