If There's A Seminal Discovery In Oncology

It Felt—nearly Twenty-five Hundred Years After Hippocrates Had Naively Coined The Overarching Term Karkinos—that Modern Oncology Was Hardly Any More Sophisticated In Its Taxonomy Of Cancer.

I Think The Cardinal Rule Of Learning To Write Is Learning To Read First. I Learned To Write By Learning To Read.

I Left Delhi In 1989 And Remember Very Little Of How Life Used To Be Then. Increasingly, In My Recent Visits To Delhi, I've Started To Realize That The City Has Become Intellectually Very Lively. It Makes Me Want To Discover The City Over And Over Again.

One Swallow Is A Coincidence, But Two Swallows Make Summer.

In 2005, A Man Diagnosed With Multiple Myeloma Asked Me If He Would Be Alive To Watch His Daughter Graduate From High School In A Few Months. In 2009, Bound To A Wheelchair, He Watched His Daughter Graduate From College. The Wheelchair Had Nothing To Do With His Cancer. The Man Had Fallen Down While Coaching His Youngest Son's Baseball Team.