Reassurance Revisited

Perhaps the most evocative essay that I have ever read is David Steensma's piece entitled "Reassurance" in the Art of Oncology section of the JCO, published in August 2004. Dr. Steensma writes an emotionally and visually powerful essay regarding his experience providing a consultation to a new mother in her twenties confronting advanced (and soon to be fatal) cervical cancer. Dr.