Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2015, Volume 28, Number 1
Content
- A Fond Vaarwel...
- A Path to Writeousness: What the Seven Deadly Sins Might Teach Us About Written Advocacy
- Adr Update: Dealing with Ab 2617
- Be Prepared: Your Week in Legal London Jurisdiction is no bar - the English barrister is abroad
- Editor's Foreword Class Without Ostentation
- Employers Take Note: the U.S. Supreme Court Has Entered the Digital Age
- Forfeiture at the Pleading Stage: Ask Permission First, Don't Apologize Later
- "I Learned About Litigating from That" Adapt and Take Advantage of Opportunities
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Masthead
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- Reclaiming Our Noble Profession: Civility in the Practice of Law
- Table of Contents
- The Disentitlement Doctrine: a Trap for Unwary Judgment Debtors in Civil Appeals
- The Fine Line Between Protected Demand Letters and Extortion
- The Litigator's Must-Know Lexicon of Idioms Used by Young Business Professionals
- Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame: Being a Trial Lawyer
- McDermott On Demand: Pass the Scalpel, Please
McDermott On Demand: Pass the Scalpel, Please
By Thomas J. McDermott, Jr.
Thomas J. McDermott, Jr.
The medical profession registered quite a shock recently when Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine published in Science magazine the fact that two-thirds of all cancers were caused by stem cells splitting. Cells split, of course, to reproduce. A cut on your hand heals because cells split. Cell splitting is not something the medical profession is likely to ever be able to eliminate, even if it wanted to. This means, at least superficially, that cancer will not be defeated in the near future and there may not be much hope in doing so ever.
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