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Dawood, surgeon who mastered the art of the scalpel and the pen

Dr Yusuf Dawood with his wife Marie during an interview with the Standard on March 1, 2018. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

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.

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