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Was watching a film called the doctor that was made in 1991. In it a cocky, rich surgeon who saw medicine only from the physician side and had poor bedside manners, often being insensitive or empathetic to his patience's situation. He and his wife have all the trapping of success.
Returning home from a dinner party, Jack has a coughing fit. His wife Anne is shocked when he coughs up blood all over her and the car. In an examination, Jack has a sample of a growth removed from his throat. The biopsy comes back positive for cancer.
He befriends June Ellis, a fellow cancer patient who has an inoperable brain tumor. She gets him to promise to never lie or mislead a patient again. Jack begins to bark at the medical establishment. Jack and June take off to see a native Indian show but the pace is too much for her. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to understand Jack's relationship with June.

Jack cancer is eventually cured but June dies before that in the film. She leaves him a card post mortem thanking him for the time they spent together.

Summarize:
Your spouse gets cancer and now has to go to all these doctors who treat them impersonal. They feel like shit and withdrawn from you because cancer sucks and you can't understand what it is there going through and feeling emotionally and mentaly. They end up befriending a cancer patient who has terminal brain tumor and can relate and understand them better than you ccan. They starts spending more time with the cancer patient than with you and emotionally cheat on you with them. The cancer patient dies some time later leaving them a card.