I have to start by clearing up the confusion I had with
Abraham Verghese's title,
Cutting for Stone. As the book mentions several times but never precisely explains, the reference is to the
Hippocratic Oath, "I will not cut for stone." However I had to look it up in
Wikipedia to find the meaning, which is probably apparent to medical professionals. It was a prohibition from operating on stones, or calcified deposits, in the kidney or bladder. The ancient Greeks apparently thought surgeons should
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