STAT February 15, 2025
Lewis Thomas’ words offer some inspiration in a troubling time
Every couple of weeks I travel to Princeton University to do archival research for a planned biography of the physician-humanist Lewis Thomas (1913-1993). Thomas was president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, author of “The Lives of a Cell,” and winner of two National Book Awards and a 1989 Lasker Prize, which heralded him as “the poet laureate of 20th Century medicine.”
Working in an historical archive...