A Cancer Doctor on Losing His Wife to Cancer

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 6, 2014

Peter Bach, a doctor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, talks about losing his wife to breast cancer. He examines how his views on treatment shifted in his role as patient’s husband. His article “The Day I Started Lying to Ruth,” is in the May 5-18, 2014, issue of New York magazine.

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