Noor’s Reviews > The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales > Status Update

"But it must be said from the outset that disease is never a mere loss or excess—that there is always a reaction, on the part of the affected organism or individual, to restore, to replace, to compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be: and to study or influence these means, no less than the primary insult to the nervous system, is an essential part of our roles as physicians.