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“Sorry my temple servant can’t do his one job of being the expert of societal matters in Asynithis,” Rhea apologized to Poseidon. “He’s defective.” Poseidon put a hand over his heart as Khalon looked at her with mouth agape. “Don’t talk to
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“Doctors, it turns out, need hope, too.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Frail but never weak.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Death comes for all of us. For us, for our patients: it is our fate as living, breathing, metabolizing organisms. Most lives are lived with passivity toward death -- it's something that happens to you and those around you. But Jeff and I had trained for years to actively engage with death, to grapple with it, like Jacob with the angel, and, in so doing, to confront the meaning of a life. We had assumed an onerous yoke, that of mortal responsibility. Our patients' lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins. Even if you are perfect, the world isn't. The secret is to know that the deck is stacked, that you will lose, that your hands or judgment will slip, and yet still struggle to win for your patients. You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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