Death and disease are dreary subjects.
If I were you, I would have nothing to do with them, wrote Somerset Maugham, the English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who infused humour into his works.
Somerset's words may have given much fodder to Dr Yusuf Kodwavwala Dawood, Kenya's famous surgeon who died on Sunday at the age of 94 in England.
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