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Annals of Oncology 2006 17(1):3-4; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdj122
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© 2005 European Society for Medical Oncology

editorial

Concordia res parvae crescent

D. J. Kerr, Editor-in-Chief

Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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Recently I have been thinking about "doing good", which is to say I have been considering how best to do good, rather than the possibility that I might abandon my wicked ways. The poet W. H. Auden, whom I have acknowledged previously as an inspiration [1Go], said "We are here on Earth to do good to others." adding "What the others are here for, I don't know."

So consider that idea: we are here on Earth to do good to others. As physicians we are schooled in the ethical concept of beneficence, of doing good, but it stands . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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