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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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the physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own ...more

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Caroline Galloway

Adding this to my pre-residency reading list

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nic stone

Do it. So worth the read. Also reccomend The Real Doctor Will See You Now.

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“Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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“What’s good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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“You hate America, don’t you?” she said. “That would be as silly as loving it,” I said. “It’s impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn’t interest me. It’s no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can’t think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can’t believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

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