"Is that the cone of silence?" was my first thought upon entering the pulmonary function lab at the University of Miami/Sylvester Cancer Center. I had pretty much decided that I'd have UM's Dr. Dao Nguyen do my surgery by the time we left the Cleveland Clinic the day before, but I still hadn't been to the hospital, as my consult with him the week before was at Sylvester Cancer Center's Deerfield Beach Clinic. So, when he said he wanted a PFT and that it could be done at the main campus in Miami, we figured we could see the facility [...]