The son of a general internist, John Lantos is a physician who's married to a fellow U of C pediatrician.
Modern hospitals have a clean and sterile hum.
Even in the intensive-care units, calm efficiency prevails. Patients are abstracted into lab values, digital readouts, radiographic images. Their individuality is lost. Perhaps that's as it should be. It's difficult to argue that it is more important to tell the stories of people with AIDS than to try to find a cure.