They Sent Me Here.

Describes the author's thoughts while preparing to give a patient bad news from a presurgical-testing clinic. The health history of Ramonita Ortega, a middle-age woman who had given up a smoking habit several year earlier, and come to the author's office for a routine visit; The issue of whether "they" (those in authority) had withheld information; The patient and doctor's reactions to a possible lung cancer diagnosis.