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Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and sou

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this. – Peter Agre

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Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. – Peter Agre

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My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Moms cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. – Peter Agre

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The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. – Peter Agre

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

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Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. – Don Herold

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The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing. – Dizzy Dean

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Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didnt have them anywhere else. – Paul Farmer

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