"A cancer hospital is one of the greatest needs of the day, and it must be built. We want a cancer hospital on its own foundation-wholly independent of all other hospitals .... Let me beg you to take steps at once to inaugurate a movement which must culminate in a great work so much needed here and now. The subject is too large and its interest too great to be lodged in a pavilion subsidiary to any other hospital.... "
- J. Marion Sims, M.D., Founder, Woman's Hospital
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