"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
"I’m Nobody, Who are you?" : This article from the Washington Monthly on memoirs by nobodies reminded me of one of my favorite medical memoirs, Diary of a Medical Nobody , by Kenneth Lane. Dr. Lane recounts practicing in rural England in the 1930’s, when antibiotics were the cutting edge of medicine and the telephone was a helpful but intrusive technological innovation. It’s out of print, but available at used book web sites like abebooks.com and alibris.com. posted by Sydney on
4/12/2002 05:34:00 AM
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