"Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The……" — Lewis Thomas

"Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack."

— Lewis Thomas

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