'In Sickness' details how a prominent cancer doc concealed her own illness — even from her husband - WBUR News

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Jane Weeks and Barrett Rollins. (Courtesy)

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How good bash you cognize your spouse? And however acold would you spell to support their secrets — oregon tolerate the secrets they kept from you? Would you prevarication to your family? Friends? Would you fto your spouse endanger their life?

Barrett Rollins did each of that. The palmy crab doctor, a prof astatine Harvard Medical School, lone discovered his wife's football-sized bosom tumor erstwhile she collapsed walking to luncheon astatine the Dana Farber Cancer Center wherever they some worked. Despite the fear, choler and shame helium felt erstwhile faced with the concealed his wife, renowned doc and crab researcher Jane Weeks, had kept from him, helium concealed the details of her illness until her decease a twelvemonth later.

His page-turning memoir "In Sickness" is Rollins' effort to fig retired however his narration with his often charismatic, sometimes obsessive, sometimes abusive woman impacted her beingness and his.

Jane Weeks. (Courtesy)Jane Weeks. (Courtesy)

Book excerpt: 'In Sickness'

By Barrett Rollins

This conception aired connected November 10, 2022.

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