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If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.
-Siddhartha Mukherjee
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If The History Of Medicine Is Told

Siddhartha Mukherjee
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.
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