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What Can

I Offer

Dr Prathyaksha A. Variar
Senior Resident, Pathology
Dibrugarh Cancer Centre

ometimes, in the busy corridors of a hospital,
these are the only four words one longs to hear:
SWhat can I offer?
Four words for a mother waiting for her baby’s
laboratory reports to improve. Four words for patients
in the palliative care ward, where healing may not
always mean cure. Four words for families waiting
outside the mortuary, holding on to whatever hope
remains.
The Human Side These words matter to healthcare teams too. Doctors,

of Healing nurses and technical staff move through long duty
hours, difficult treatment decisions, ventilator alarms,
breaking bad news and grieving families, while also

In cancer care, compassion longing to return home to their own children and loved
matters as much as clinical ones.
support. Kindness, dignity and In these four simple words lies the power to restore a
empathy can help restore hope for small spark of hope when life seems to stand still. They
patients, families and healthcare remind us of the old, enduring value of compassion
teams during some of their most and empathy towards another human being trying to
difficult moments. survive each day.

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