When emaciated man was brought back to the hospital last week, the doctors immediately recognized him as someone they had treated, and who was in the terminal stages of stomach cancer. It was not a case of him not being treated for economic reasons, it was a case of all options being explored, and waiting for nature to take its inevitable course.

Also, one of the doctors has been keeping a blog definitely worth reading: http://ramani-fieldnotes.blogspot.com/