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The brain is a very complex organ. Perhaps the most complex and at the same time least understood.
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I was lucky. When I was a junior high school and high school student, we studied English literature including at least one of Shakespeare’s plays.
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Most physician have a basic understanding of the risks of head trauma.
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I found it while rummaging through the contents of drawer I emptied from my desk at Baycrest Geriatric Centre, the place I retired from after forty-four years.
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Sexuality is as old as the human and all species came into existence.
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This history of the modern introduction of assisted suicide in North America follow a tortuous course, with complete rejection of the idea, to implementation in many of its jurisdictions.
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The reality of addictions is not new. Over the millennia there is written evidence of addictions to substances and activities that would be recognized by contemporary observers of human history.
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In the earliest writing of stories, physicians and illnesses often played an important role.
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Most of us would agree with the almost trite saving that "life is a journey".