Nikhil Joshi, MD, a licensed internist and senior fellow at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine, Winnipeg. He is a cancer survivor—now 30, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at age 27. He hosted a Canadian radio program about his cancer experience and authored a book The End of Suffering about overcoming life’s obstacles.
When a friend has cancer, the last thing you want to do is say something that will upset him or…