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Gould’s wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, now claims that the doctors—an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and two radiologists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital—overlooked a centimeter-wide lesion in the upper lobe of his lung that later became cancerous...
Gould was diagnosed and cured of abdominal mesothelioma cancer in the early ’80s and had been getting regular cancer screenings at Dana-Farber...
...Nevertheless, no disclosure was ever made to Professor Gould during his lifetime or to [Shearer] to this date by the defendants, or Dana-Farber or Brigham and Women’s, of that knowledge,” the suit reads...
Mayer, who is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, did not return requests for comment yesterday. A spokesperson for Dana-Farber said that Mayer is not commenting on the allegations...
...familiar stuff. But Grunwald tells the story with a wit-a bride wears an "expression of tranquilized charm"-that never quite conceals the sting of wisdom just below. Perhaps it's no surprise that by the end of her well-turned and winning tale, we see and feel, as Farber does, that the pursuit of happiness is really nothing more than a recipe for misery. -By Pico Iyer