Fourth Annual Chicago Supportive Oncology Conference

The baptism

Myron Goldsmith, MD

Huntington Beach, CA

For a Jewish doctor who calls himself an atheist, it was a strange request: help baptize a woman on oxygen dying of advanced lung cancer. If he could pull off the ceremony, without the patient dying in the process, it might be a small victory over the disease—for him and for her.

Commun Oncol 2005;2:135–136   print e-mail full text 68 kb