I couldn't save your mum as her doctor. Here's what I want you to know | Ranjana Srivastava

Your mother was one of the kindest people I ever met. And she taught me how to live a life that suddenly and tragically goes off-script

I guess I have been practicing this conversation in my mind ever since I met your mum and tried to push back in my mind the inevitability of what was bound to happen when I assumed her care.

Your mum was my patient. I was her oncologist. Since she always spoke of the four of you collectively, I also thought of you as “the girls”, but meeting you for the first time at her funeral reminded me that you are, of course, individuals – beautiful, composed, and far too young to experience the singular misfortune of losing a parent.

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