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Question
How was Dr. Barnard’s attitude to suffering different from that of his father’s?
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Solution
Dr. Barnard’s father accepted suffering as God’s will. He also believed that suffering ennobles humans. But Dr. Barnard found no meaning in the agony and suffering of patients and especially of the young children.
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For a few moments, I lay regaining
my breath, and for the first time really
felt the fierce determination that nothing
now could stop us from reaching the top. I took
a firm stance on the ledge and signaled
to Tenzing to come on up. As I heaved
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giant cornices on the right; steep rock
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top was. As I cut around the back of one
hump, another higher one would swing
into view. Time was passing and the ridge
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struggle. I then realized that the ridge
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