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Date Posted: 04:51:53 02/16/08 Sat
Author: Edward M Stadum
Subject: Life Imitating Art -- a Saturday Moment

I regard Saturday as McEwan's finest novel. Especially, the pivotal moment when Henry says to Baxter, "Your father had it. Now you've got it, too."

Today the story surfaced in the London Daily Mail of the meeting between Dr. Chris Britt and Mark Gurrieri in a London restaurant. Dr. Britt shook Gurrieri's hand and immediately recognized the symptoms of acromegaly, a benign tumor at the base of the brain that can lead to blindness, diabetes, high blood pressure and premature death. Britt was right. In due course his diagnosis was confirmed. and a surgeon removed the tumor from Gurrieri's pituitary gland, saving him from a premature death.

That handshake was a Saturday moment.

(You can read the Daily Mail article at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=514340&in_page_id=1774)

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