“Medicine is a demanding mistress, yet she is faithful, generous and true. She gives me the privilege of seeing patients and of teaching students at the bedside, and thereby she gives meaning to everything I do. Like Ghosh, every year, at commencement, I renew my vows with her, I swear by Apollo and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia to be true to her, for she is the source of all…I shall not cut for stone.”