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Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

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It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

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Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than it should. They cave in needlessly. They ignore an...

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Suppose I stopped taking aspirin and phenylbutazone? What about the pain? The bones in my spine and practically every joint in my body felt as though ...

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