Doctor's have it easy on so many counts. Besides the obvious benefits of an incredible pay scale, they have the simple luxury of being able to present bad news to people with a straight face. My boss Stacy, whom I've been mentioning the last few weeks, was diagnosed with Colon Cancer a few weeks ago. They removed about 6 inches of his colon and thought that they'd gotten all of it. They removed numerous lymph nodes to check and found that half of them were cancerous They were still optimistic at that point. Deciding to start chemo five days a month for six months to make sure they got it all. They did a few tests the other day and found it in his liver as well. They told him yesterday afternoon that he had 2-5 years to live. to make things even worse they told him yesterday afternoon that he only had a 50% chance to live 2 years, a 30% chance to live for 5 and even after that there was only a 8% chance that he'd go into remission. That's pretty crushing news to give to someone with a straight face. Stacy and I have become incredibly close over the last 3 years. We've basically been together 8+ hours a day since i started working there. This all is hitting me pretty hard. Those who know me know that i'll put on a good front and laugh through everything, but i just can't do that. Stacy is someone i've grown to look up to. He's an incredible person who hasn't been cut a break since day one. He's done everything right, no smoking, drinking or drugs. He eats healthy and gets as much excercise as his back will let him. To have a bombshell like this drop is simply unimagineable to me. There are some cruel gods out there. So in closing, I wish I could just look at things like a doctor and not have to go home and feel like screaming at the universe at large over how unfair it all is.