For decades, an ancient Egyptian known as Merit Ptah has been celebrated as the first female physician and a role model for women entering medicine. Yet a researcher now says she never existed and is an example of how misconceptions can spread. [1] Does it matter though? If the dead can affect the living? If the non-existent can convey enthusiasm to the existent? We will grow. We will die. And at the end, the cosmos will stop being. But what is important is that at some point it was there. Close your eyes. Everything goes away. But you still know its there…

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