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“The registrar, who was very experienced and wise, immediately ordered an industrial dose of diamorphine. This was possibly my first experience of a competent and humane doctor going outside guidelines to better serve the patient’s needs… His thoughts on when, and when not to, discontinue resuscitation bought perspective to the existing didactic protocols.”

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“the importance of experience, critical thinking and the self-confidence to be a good doctor. Call it intuition but sometimes subliminal influences produce a conviction that the perfectly reasonable diagnosis suggested by a colleague may be wrong even when their diagnosis is supported by preliminary investigations.”

“There was something infinitely impressive about the man, tall, slender, gray-haired, blue-eyed, soft-spoken. He had the looks of the doctors one read about in women's novels. There was something so basically kind and gentle about him, yet something powerful as well. The aura of a highly trained racehorse always straining at the reins, aching to go faster, farther . . . to do more . . . to fight time . . . to conquer odds beyond hope . . . to steal back just one life . . . one man . . . one woman . . . one child . . . one more. And often he won. Often. But not always. And that irked him. More than that, it pained him. It was the cause for the lines beside his eyes, the sorrow one saw deep within him. It wasn't enough that he wrought miracles almost daily. He wanted more than that, better odds, he wanted to save them all, and there was no way he could.”