“...to think that before Pasteur's discovery of microbes, doctors fought duels over the merits of balsam of Peru versus tar oil for wound infection. Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. Still, each generation of physicians imagined that ignorance was the special provenance of their elders.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“If we should fail?
Lady Macbeth:
We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail.”
― Macbeth
Lady Macbeth:
We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail.”
― Macbeth
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