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parents. His father worked as a fisherman and rarely spoke,
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There Dr Alfredo that defied categorisation. He was in his
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the wrinkles of decades. He had spent his professional life
among the far-flung peoples of the Third World, learning his
trade where rules were few and precise medical techniques even
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(1988)
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of the countryside. He learned the knife’s edge between life
and death, and how sometimes the most a doctor needed to do
was to sit, to be present, to watch over a patient who would
pass away no matter what.
