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...doctors generally obey the injunction, "Physician, heal thyself." A.M.A. statisticians found that among 204,450 M.D.s followed for three years, there were 6% fewer deaths than in the general population. Despite physicians' exposure to infectious diseases, their death rates from influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis were about half the national average. They had 7% fewer deaths from cancer, but 35% more from diabetes, and after 60, slightly more from heart disease...
...written, 'And if the stranger sojourn with you in your land, you shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be as one born among you and thou shalt love him as thyself.' And the Arabs of Israel are not strangers but citizens with fundamental equal rights. It is clear that no amount of money can possibly compensate for the loss of these lives...
...Know Thyself. Medical science, says Selye, should now make the effort to combat disease by strengthening the body's own defenses against stress. It may do this not only by ordering rest or prolonged sleep but artificial hibernation or treatment with ataraxic drugs and others (including hormones) not yet discovered...
...Heal Thyself. In Kitchener, Ont., after being chased off a farm by an ax-waving farmer, shoved out of an apartment at gunpoint, threatened with death several times, punched in the nose, tossed down a flight of stairs, chased by dogs, Frank Fica decided to give up bill collecting, become a chiropractor...
...beer, 'I wish I were dead,' " writes Michalson, "would only be really existing if he were at that moment quaffing poison." Kierkegaard, says Yale's Niebuhr, was much like his hero Socrates, "whose wisdom consisted in the knowledge of his ignorance, whose imperative was 'know thyself,' whose philosophy of life was 'reduplicated in his living and his dying, who was a comic and tragic figure, who was the father of philosophers but the father of no philosophy." Kierkegaard attacked the Christianity of his time devastatingly for standing between the individual and Christ. True Christianity...