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“Talking about medicine, I told him with bitterness about my growing cynicism about what I could do, and he said, “No, we don’t cure. I never bought that either. I went through the same cynicism—all that training, and then this helplessness. And yet, in spite of all our doubt, we can give something. Not cure, no. What sustains us is when we find a way to be compassionate, to love. And the most loving thing we do is to be with a patient, like you are being with me.”
― The House of God
― The House of God
“To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“The main source of illness in this world is the doctor’s own illness: his compulsion to try to cure and his fraudulent belief that he can.”
― The House of God
― The House of God
“It’s our job to tell them that imperfect health is and always has been perfect health, and that most of the things that go wrong with their bodies we can’t do much about. So maybe we do make diagnoses; big deal. We hardly ever cure.”
― The House of God
― The House of God
“Each of us was becoming more isolated. The more we needed support, the more shallow were our friendships; the more we needed sincerity, the more sarcastic we became. It had become an unwritten law among the terns: don’t tell what you feel, ’cause if you show a crack, you’ll shatter. We imagined that our feelings could ruin us, like the great silent film stars had been ruined by sound.”
― The House of God
― The House of God
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