Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life
The Interview
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Dealing With Dad's Cancer
You were analysing your own father as a patient at Lancer. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer from the outset it had already spread. I found it unbelievably difficult to see this man who was such a colossus for me steadily relentlessly being stripped away by this horrible disease both physically and mentally. Towards the end he towards the end became frightened became angry went through periods of almost bitterness as he gradually adjusted to his diagnosis. You write about it in a way that suggests to me that you were surprised that it actually hit you in the way that it did despite all of the years you'd had in palliative carethis was something very different for you.
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