Dedication
Dedicated to Edio D. Micozzi (1927-2007)
Who taught me the Latin I needed to know
In modern medicine, question the status quo
And of it, remember to always ask, cui bono
Acknowledgment to the team at University of Texas Medical Branch—Galveston who worked by hurricane lamp during Hurricane Ike to complete their chapters on time.
And new philosophy calls all in doubt
The element of fire is quite put out
The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man’s wit
Can well direct him where to look for it
And freely men confess that this world’s spent
When in the Planets, and the Firmament
They seek so many new; they see that this
Is crumbled out againe to his Atomies
‘Tis all in pieces, all cohaerence gone;
All just supply, and all relation
John Donne (1572-1631), Physician and Metaphysician, Written in 1611