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“Every drug, the sixteenth-century physician Paracelsus once opined, is a poison in disguise. Cancer chemotherapy, consumed by its fiery obsession to obliterate the cancer cell, found its roots in the obverse logic: every poison might be a drug in disguise.”
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“But, like superheroes, they would not want to keep themselves a secret for long. How could you be a superhero if no one knew you existed?”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“Nobody has it coming.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Every illness is not a set of pathologies but a personal story”
― The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
― The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Bio-Med Book Club
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— last activity Jul 30, 2026 07:42AM
Reading and discussing plain language books about science and medicine. Goals are enjoyment and education. Degrees and expertise NOT required. We meet ...more
History, Medicine, and Science: Nonfiction and Fiction
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Discussion about the fascinating stories of our scientific and medical past
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