Abby’s Reviews > The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer > Status Update

“The art [of medicine] is long, and life is short.” -Hippocrates

“Resilience, inventiveness, and survivorship- qualities often ascribed to great physicians- are reflected qualities, emanating first from those who struggle with illness and only then mirrored by those who treat them. If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.