"The Best Possible Outcome"

Full brief on Cardinal George's status here -- the Trib reports that his first words on hearing the news were, "Oh, thank God!"

One thing which hasn't been touched on all that much over the last week is that Dr Myles Sheehan, the cardinal's personal physician and a professor of internal medicine at Loyola University Med School, is also Fr Sheehan -- he's a Jesuit. And a brother in the order of Ivy.

Here's a profile of the priest-doctor from his alma mater's alumni magazine.

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