Stephen Jay Gould and medical information online

In his essay, The Median Isn't the Message
(www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html) , Stephen Jay Gould recalls that
when he was first diagnosed with abdominal mesothelioma, a rare form of
cancer, his consultant suggested that maybe he shouldn't read too much about
his condition.

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