If you grew up hearing stories from the book of Genesis, you know about Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. I thought about this story over the past week because I regret having succumbed to the temptation to read my CT scan report, 5 days before my oncology appointment. Last Thursday I had a brain MRI and CT scan. Mt. Nittany hospital uploads the radiologists' reports on the scans within 24 hours. Due to a previous freak-out over some wording that sounded like bad news, I had sworn that I would not read these reports before my oncologist could interpret them. So much for that. I read the reports first thing Friday morning. The brain MRI was clear, which I was expecting, but when I read "new 8mm nodule" on my CT scan report, I freaked out, even though everything else was stable. Three doctor friends, including an oncologist, walked me back from the brink with their assurances that it could be from an infection, that nodules often come and ...