Only in the Emergency Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, after the doctors started swarming, and one told her she needed surgery now, did M. learn what had happened. She had scratched through her skull during the night?and all the way into her brain.

— http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

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  1. The most disturbing thing I have read in a long time!!!

    Am on
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