Looking at this immensely swollen face in front of him the doctor gently consoled the patient, 'Comrade, don't worry and you will recover.' As a matter of fact, he was thinking quite the opposite, 'You will die. I can be of no more help.'

When they accepted their assignments they were not very confident, especially the assistant head surgeon who simply believed in his own past experience, in the…

Later the assistant chief surgeon told people that he had been a surgeon for eleven years, had seen not a few patients die and consequently had become quite co…

According to the world's highest medical authorities, burns extending over 75 per cent of a person's body are regarded as likely to prove fatal. The burns of t…

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts a…

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.