It's a very memorable experience when a doctor thinks he is helping by telling a person they are recovering from a terminal illness and they and their loved one

It's a very memorable experience when a doctor thinks he is helping by telling a person they are recovering from a terminal illness and they and their loved ones take him at his word and then go nuts trying to figure out why symptoms are getting worse. That's the slippery slope you end up on when you say odds don't matter.