Dr. Cantway is an emergency room doctor in Laramie who treats both Matthew Shepard and Aaron McKinney in the same day. Dr. Cantway recalls that Matthew’s injuries were the kind normally seen in severe car crash victims. Dr. Cantway expresses profound compassion for both Matthew and Aaron, modeling the generous compassion that the playwrights themselves seem to try to uphold in the making of their play.
Dr. Cantway Quotes in The Laramie Project
The The Laramie Project quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Cantway or refer to Dr. Cantway. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1: Finding Matthew Shepard
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They were both my patients and they were two kids. I took care of both of them…of both their bodies. And… for a brief moment I wondered if this is how God feels when he looks down at us. How we are all his kids…Our bodies…Our souls…And I felt a great deal of compassion…for both of them…
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Dr. Cantway Quotes in The Laramie Project
The The Laramie Project quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Cantway or refer to Dr. Cantway. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1: Finding Matthew Shepard
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They were both my patients and they were two kids. I took care of both of them…of both their bodies. And… for a brief moment I wondered if this is how God feels when he looks down at us. How we are all his kids…Our bodies…Our souls…And I felt a great deal of compassion…for both of them…
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