Hyperactive vasopressin receptors and disturbed water homeostasis.

school, coming to the profession for timeless reasons — because of a physician they admire, or because they want to serve, or because they have suffered or witnessed suffering. Perhaps some lucky ones even today have been called to medicine through the medium of a book. If they have a love of literature, reading may well help them to discover a way to understand and identify with the ambitions, sorrows, and joys of the people whose lives are put in their hands. In medicine, we often separate life events from their meaning for those who live them. In literature, the two are united. That is reason enough to keep reading. And writing.