Commencement speakers are expected to utter stately sentences heaving with social
and political significance or to give advice to graduates about the need to live blamelessly
in an otherwise imperfect world. I am not going to do that. Nor am I going to tell
you about the -ectomies and -ostomies of my life. Rather, I am going to celebrate
that magnificent bequest that you have just inherited—the language of medicine, which
is uniquely ours and must be given to only the most worthy.
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