...But he had known the answer all along, even while the white doctors were telling him he could get well and he was trying to believe them: medicine… - Leslie Marmon Silko

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...But he had known the answer all along, even while the white doctors were telling him he could get well and he was trying to believe them: medicine didn't work that way, because the world didn't work that way. His sickness was only part of something larger, and his cure would be found only in something great and inclusive of everything. (p125)