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Peace While speaking to a young physician, we discussed the ultimate goal of any good doctor. I mentioned the axiom I studied that stated, "A good physician always strives to treat the cause, not the symptom". Upon saying that, the young doctor chuckled! When I inquired as to what was so humorous about that time-tested maxim, he promptly told me 'his' motto. As a newly graduated physician of the 21st Century his was something very different. He stated emphatically, "Whatever works, is good". There is a profound practical wisdom in that saying. What I will share with you herein is based somewhat on this simple premise, "Whatever works, is good"... which is to say, whatever can promote a permanent cure, a genuine healing, is good! 249