Doctors and preachers have a similar task: telling the hard truth

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The Truth "The pathologist's report is in; it was positive." "What? It was what . . . what does that mean?" "Mr. Wilson, you have cancer." It was a call I'd been expecting. I knew there was a chance that the lump was cancerous, but I wasn't fully prepared to hear the "C" word. I was too young and too…