Аннотация:surgery's prognosis that he had only three months to live.He was not a real success as a professor, either as a teacher or on the senate, though his kindness to students was proverbial.He was a man with severe porphyria who smoked too much and was without the consolation of a wife, a religious belief, or a merit award-but he didn't do so badly."2Eventually we may need a radical solution.The Lancet, for instance, has abolished obituaries.A supplement might be a solution but would be expensive.The most likely answer is that some day we will switch to publishing death notices rather than obituaries for most doctors.The advantages would be that we would probably record the deaths of more people than we do at the moment-and more quickly.
