‘Doctor of the dead’

“Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children's hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission.’’

Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Indian-American physician, biologist and writer