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In medical terms, a '''remission''' refers to tests showing that signs of a patient's cancer is gone. This is welcome news. The patient Saul in Samuel Shem's ''[[The House of God]]'' does not realize this.
''"It's wonderful!" I said, realizing how I'd kept myself from hoping anything for Saul, given the odds against these buddings, these buds, and I ran up to his room, and panting, yelled at him, "Saul, you've got a remission!"''