I seem to be a little overextended these days, but I’ll get over it. I can be a little nutty now and then, but I ain’t a nut.” “I know you’re not,” Dago Red said, “but you people in The Swamp have got to get over the idea that you can save everyone who comes into this hospital. Man is mortal. The wounded can stand only so much, and the surgeon can do only so much.” “Red, that lousy can’t-win-’em-all philosophy is no good.
