Breast Cancer No. 2 Margaret Overton in “Breast Cancer No. 2” uses as her thesis, “Everyone’s tolerance is different, so I titrate the drugs to the desired effect” (465). She employs description, narration, and compare and contrast. She expresses an emotional tone in order to show how the doctor deals with a patient with breast cancer that determines life or death. Overton begins his story of the doctor’s perspective by providing description of the doctor’s personal experience of a patient’s case dealing with reoccurring breast cancer. She provides details of the case and patient’s information such as, “The patient’s name is Onica M…” (464), with the chart reading she is “age 039” (464). She also gives details of the way she looks laying on the metal table. “She’s stripped of her clothes, jewelry, nail polish, and make up…” (464). Overton compares the way the patient looks to how the doctors look on a daily basis, “She’ll cover her head with a disposable hat, and she’ll look almost like us…” (464-465). Overton presents these details to set the background information of Onica and show the process she has to go through. These descriptions of her give an understanding on how the doctors deal with reoccurring breast cancer. Overton continues the story by expanding her personal experience on the surgery procedure and actual work on the…show more content… She distinguishes the doctor’s job as being “…horror in only snippets, in quotas, one at a time, day after day” (466). She introduces how the doctor does not understand the “language” (466) of being a cancer patient but compares her life in the future of maybe understanding it. Overton implies that the doctor is imagining her future life with cancer and how completely different it would be. This conveys an emotional tone of doctors getting too involved with the patients and really feeling for
