Volume 41, Number 11 · June 9, 1994
The Pill of Pills
By Sherwin B. Nuland
Listening to Prozac
by Peter D. Kramer
Viking, 409 pp., $23.00
As a third-year medical student forty years ago, I gratefully used this limerick to help me remember the signs and symptoms exhibited by patients harboring an unusual chemical-secreting tumor called carcinoid. The lines had been composed by the most nimble-witted of the great professors of medicine of that time, William Bean of the University of Iowa.
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