Silent Treatment by Jackie Williams5/27/2023 ![]() His patient, on the other hand, recognizes that the word is being used metaphorically. On the one hand, the physician understands himself to be using the word “insidious” as it has become part of clinical language, to refer to a gradual, undetectable and harmful physical process of the sort associated with ovarian cancer. ![]() Curious choice of word.” 1 Edson’s opening scene focuses attention on the meanings of words which are used to describe ovarian cancer. Vivian then ponders what he has just said: “Insidious. Kelekian: “Insidous” means undetectable at an. Now it is an insidious adenocarcinoma, which has spread from the primary adnexal mass. Kelekian: You present with a growth that, unfortunately, went undetected in stages one, two and three. Kelekian: You have cancer … you have advanced, metastatic ovarian cancer. He is in the process of informing her that she has stage 4 ovarian cancer: ![]() ![]() A Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson, entitled W t, begins with an exchange between an oncologist, Dr Harvey Kelekian, and his patient, a John Donne scholar and professor of English named Vivian Bearing. ![]()
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