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Article: Spiritual allusions suffuse Sherwin B. Nuland's conversation and writings.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 10, 1998
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For sheer drama, nothing on ``ER'' or any other television ``doctor show'' surpasses an episode that Sherwin B. Nuland recounts in ``How We Live'' (Vintage, 395 pp., $14 paper).
Nuland is the Yale University surgeon and author who won the National Book Award for ``How We Die'' (1993). In his latest book, he tells of responding to the most urgent summons for a surgeon he ever heard in his career.
One night at the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, Conn., a patient named Marge Hansen lay on an operating table, about to bleed to death. The surgeons working on her, despite their best efforts in an extreme emergency, couldn't pinpoint what was ...