Even with advances in biotechnology, modern medicine rests on an inherent uncertainty built into it
What do John Keats, Oliver Goldsmith, George Crabbe, Oliver Wendal Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Bridges, Somerset Maugham, William Carlos Williams, Walter Percy, Oliver Sacks, Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Bulgakov have in common? What united them was that they were medical doctors first, writers second.
To paraphrase Chekhov,