His understanding was they were going to beat up the person responsible.

The fall in the sand trap - a distance of 6 feet - caused the type of hemorrhaging that led to his death.

He was in hell for 12 years and purgatory for 13. He's been denied opportunities in life ... jobs, housing opportunities, friends have shunned him, neighbors have looked at him. ... He's spent more than half his life tainted in this shroud of guilt.

If patients have opportunities to tell their stories, to be asked questions and have the physician verbalize understanding of what's been shared, it leaves them feeling like they were heard.

What's going on in biology, and is really very major, is we're understanding how really spectacular cells are at figuring things out, processing information, analyzing complicated situations and making good decisions about them. The research agenda, at least for the beginning of the 21st Century, is focusing on cells and organisms as very sophisticated and powerful processors of information.

His greatest asset is a rare and deep understanding of the interrelatedness of those disciplines.