Davies was awarded many academic honours, and the lectures he gave on those occasions were small works of art, worked at and worried over for weeks.

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Finally, whenever I talk about specific pharmacologic treatments I need to disclose that in addition to my academic work I have given lectures for two pharmaceutical companies in the last year: Lilly and Wyeth.

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