Scientist to Watch: Amy Wagers - Setting the record straight
When I knock on the door of room 733 of the MeritCare Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo, ND, Doug Bergman is sitting up in his bed. He's been expecting me, but it's not me he's waiting for. On this mid-October day, wearing flannel pajama bottoms and a brown T-shirt, Bergman, 55, is anxiously awaiting the results of a bone marrow biopsy he had this morning.
The biopsy wasn't pleasant. "'Geez, you've got hard bones,' that's what the guy doing the biopsy said," says Bergman. "The worst of it is when they draw it out. They make you reach for something to grab." This was his third biopsy, so I ask him whether they've gotten better. He laughs. "At least you know what's coming."
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