See Featured Authors Answering Questions. Nikki Torres asked:. To answer questions about Cutting for Stone , please sign up. Phyllis In the ancient Greek Hippocratic Oath for physicians there was a line about not cutting for stone gall stone, kidney stone, etc because of the danger to the patient.
In the era, there was no anesthesia, etc. The surgeon in the book is a Doctor Stone and his two estranged sons become doctors. Write a comment Renee When women would come to see Shiva for treatment, Cutting for Stone was often the note attached to them. Don't want to give any more away to spoil Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!
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That's the professional promise that doctors make "first do no harm" when they first become legit doctors, and one of its vows goes a little like this:. Wait, what? Okay, let's slow down. According to the author, this refers to back in the day when people got lots of bladder stones, and so there were lots of dudes who went around cutting them out. Problem was, these dudes didn't know much of anything about germs and bacteria and things like that, so lots of people got infected. This promise is basically a repetition of "do no harm"—it's just more specific.
It also fits handily in with the surname of many of the characters: Stone. Thomas Stone, Shiva and Marion Stone's biological father, abandons them on the day that they're born. They spend their lives wondering about him; his memory, or lack thereof, bugs them.
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