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•     'MRI Film of an AIDS Patient'
•     'Nothing Will Ever Happen to Them'
•     'Not One Millimeter Off'
•     'One Out of Nine'
•     'Pediatric Nephrology Conference'
•     'Peptide Synthesization'
•     'Strategy for Radiation'
•     'Teaching Rounds at Charity'
•     'They Just Melted Away'
•     'Therapeutical Apheresis
•     'Waiting for a New Heart'
•     'World Wide Dissemination of Medical Knowledge'

'They Just Melted Away'
(tempera and oil on plastic, 36' x 43')
©May H. Lesser

“He had a large amount of melanoma that was covering this entire part of the chest wall with multiple nodules and they just disappeared, not long after we started the treatment, probably the third or fourth day." The chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute feels the chest of his patient, the nurse alongside the therapeutic infusion monitors the drips ... the tableau was eloquent in its simplicity.