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What does it mean?
Famous doctors were called but admitted they could not cure the disease.
In plain terms
Even famous doctors could not find a cure for this illness.
What can you take from it?
Medical skill has limits; not all diseases have cures.

Where it applies

  • facing terminal illness
  • seeking medical help
  • accepting limits of science

Putting it to work

  • prepare for bad medical news
  • value care over cure
  • accept limits of treatment

Questions to consider

  • How do you accept when there is no cure?
  • What do famous doctors know that others do not?

Another view

It assumes medicine cannot eventually find a cure for any disease.

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