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Surat (Gujarat) [India], August 22: On a hot April afternoon in Surat, the Patel family sat in a crowded hospital waiting room, clutching a CT scan report that felt heavier than paper. The words were sharp, merciless: advanced liver cancer, spread across both lobes, blocked veins, fluid buildup, bone changes. For 74-year-old Ravjibhai (name changed), the doctors spoke plainly: there was no cure left, only comfort care. “You could say it was the moment we stopped talking about tomorrow,” remembers his nephew, Dr. Siddharth Patel. “We were quietly preparing for the end.” Yet just three months later, on another afternoon…
