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The Cheerful Oncologist

"Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours." -Sir William Osler

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The Sunday Night Poem - W. B. Yeats

Category: Literary

[Editor's note: The narrator has been begging me for months to let him post some poetry on this site, using the argument that unless we promote the world's greatest poems, the collective I.Q. of this country is going to drop...

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Classical Rhetoric in Medicine: Optatio

Category: Literary

A chest CT revealed the suspicious lesions, some plastered up against the pleural lining like a mud dauber's nest, some floating in the lung parenchyma like bubbles in the airy meadow.

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Hallowe'en is for Reading - If You Dare

Category: Literary

This may sound silly but I believe you aren't a true fan of Hallowe'en unless you stay up really late, turn out all the nights except one, plop yourself down into an old chair right next to a window -...

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Classical Rhetoric in Medicine: Assonance and Alliteration

Category: Literary

By linking words together the writer lights an emotional fire under the reader which illuminates the message the writer wishes to convey.

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What Page Are We On?

Category: Literary

Sometimes an illness is hidden behind a mirror that no matter how hard we look shows us only the reflection of our frustrated face.

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Last to Reach the Summit

Category: Literary

Our will to achieve can never be extinguished until the final human on this magnificent planet falls into the snow - or dust.

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The Quest

Category: Literary

The diabolical combination that keeps the mysteries of a cancerous cell locked from human view is methodically being deciphered, one number at a time.

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O, Call Back Yesterday, Bid Time Return!

Category: Literary

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer...

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