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...medicine, catapulted clinical practice forward by centuries. Marveling at heart transplantation, gene sequencing, and tissue engineering wizardry, Osler might perseverate on why millions lack access to basic primary care. Troubled by a nation advanced in technology but crippled by the problem of equal access to quality health care, the doctor places his dinner selection: compassion. The consummate healer eloquently speaks of aequanimitas–a balanced state of health, wisdom, insight, and clarity...
...audition sheet was returned with a note: “No way could these people be Harvard freshmen”.But despite Brown’s obvious talent, her academic workload belied the possibility of a future in music. Brown said that her parents hoped she would become a doctor, and she stuck to her pre-med requirements for two years. Brown took only one introductory music course but never learned to read standard notation music, and eventually concentrated in History and Literature.Brown eventually wrote her senior thesis on the history of American bluegrass. Robert W. Jones...
...murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, 67, has already been reconstructed in chilling detail: the threats to Good Samaritans who tried to intervene, the single shot in a Wichita, Kans., church, the wailing wife, the gunman's powder-blue getaway car decorated with a red rose - an antiabortion emblem - and a Jesus fish. But specifics about the suspected shooter, Scott Roeder, 51, are only just starting to emerge. Roeder had been following, and decrying, Tiller's work - which included performing abortions after 21 weeks - for years. Early reports on Roeder, who was taken into custody shortly after the shooting...
...Posting on the website for Operation Rescue, which included a "Tiller Watch" feature, a man identifying himself as Scott Roeder asked in 2007 whether anyone had considered going to Tiller's church to ask the doctor about his work. (Operation Rescue's president has denounced the crime, calling it a "cowardly act." The group's founder, Randall Terry, issued a statement calling Tiller a "mass murderer" whose "hands were covered with blood.") Read "Right-Wing Reactions to Tiller Murder...
...original version of this story misstated that Paul Hill killed David Gunn. Gunn was killed by Michael Griffin. Hill murdered another doctor, John Britton, in Pensacola...