When we visit the doctor’s office, we fill out forms and check items on lists. Age? Ethnicity? History of heart disease? Allergies to medications? Cancer in the family? To enter the American health care system is to grow accustomed to thinking of yourself in the logic of categories. I am a white male of a certain age whose family has a history of cancer. In this description, my father’s agonizing death has all but disappeared.
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