Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and thanks to you our most vulnerable people have received food drinkable water shelter medical care and education. For that we are extremely grateful.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

For my convalescence I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

In my second year after moving to the Medical School I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals and I was a Captain in the army at the end in 1945.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.