Patients and doctors are allies separated by a common language: suffering. Patients suffer because of their diseases, because of their feelings of alienation within a technocratic medical system and because their experience is ignored in our society that often believes the best way to get rid of suffering is to get rid of the sufferer. […]
Thomas W. McGovern
Thomas W. McGovern, M.D., is a skin cancer surgeon in Fort Wayne, Ind., a national board member of the Catholic Medical Association and the host of the weekly magazine-style radio show
“Doctor, Doctor.”