Who is the true authority on cancer? The cancer suffer or the cancer specialist? The patient

knows cancer experientially, the sensation, the frightening dread and anxiety, the

the dilapidating effect of the disease.

The cancer specialist, on the other hand, knows the cancer clinically.

He or she have studied the pathology of cancer, its diagnosis, its treatment, its prognosis.

He or she has examined the cancer cell under a microscope and they can identify, they can identify its type and they surgically have removed the cancer from

human body. So in reality the answer is both are, both no cancer. They both, the patient and the specialist know cancer well. Ah, but they know

that dreaded disease very differently from each other. The patient's knowledge and the specialist

knowledge are different types of knowledge. The patient's knowledge and the specialist knowledge are different types of knowledge.

The patient and the specialist have very different experiences with the disease.

The patient knows it as a sufferer of the disease, but the specialist knows it as an authority on the subject.

And, beloved, I could not help but think that when Eve was tempted by Satan in the

Garden of Eden, when Satan lied to her, big, bold lie.

And the lie was that she can become an authority on the disease,

that she can become an expert on the disease or deadly disease overnight,

that she can be so knowledgeable of the disease just like the great

specialist on the disease.

And she fell for it.

And when she fell for the big lie, she became a sufferer of the disease instead of an expert.

She became a patient instead of a specialist. He sold her the

big lie by telling her that she can become an authority on good and evil, that she can become

an expert overnight, that she can become a talking head on CNN and all of the networks, that she

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