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No Stranger to Tears: A Surgeon’s Story, by William G. Cahan, MD (Random House, 448 pp., $25)

THE MASTER Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock once suggested that the ideal university would start with a man smoking a pipe, around whom would accrete disciples and books, in no special order, and eventually some sort of housing to keep the books dry (the shade of a large tree would presumably do for the others: there’s a lot to be learned from getting wet occasionally).

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No Stranger to Tears: A Surgeon’s Story, by William G. Cahan, MD (Random House, 448 pp., $25)

THE MASTER Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock once suggested that the ideal university would start with a man smoking a pipe, around whom would accrete disciples and books, in no special order, and eventually some sort of housing to keep the books dry (the shade of a large tree would presumably do for the others: there’s a lot to be learned from getting wet occasionally).