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No Stranger to Tears: A Surgeon's Story.

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From: National Review
Date: 19921228
Author:Sheed, Wilfrid

THE MASTER Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock once suggested that the ideal university would start with a man smoking a pipe, around whom would accrete disciples and books, in no special order, and eventually some sort of housing to keep the books dry (the shade of a large tree would presumably do for the others: there's a lot to be learned from getting wet occasionally).

This, one might suppose, may be all very well for universities, but is not altogether practical for hospitals. Yet the one Dr. William Cahan writes about in his book, to wit, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer ...

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