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Lisa
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“Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: “Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“The burdens for today’s caregiver have actually increased from what they would have been a century ago.”
― Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet—and this is the painful paradox—we have decided that they should be the ones who largely define how we live in our waning days.”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“97 percent of medical students take no course in geriatrics, and the strategy requires that the nation pay geriatric specialists to teach rather than to provide patient care.”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Your politics are not what you tell yourself you believe. They are not the set of ideas that you identify with, or look to for personal validation of your goodness as a human being. Your politics are expressed in the choices that you make, the way you treat other people, and the actions you perform.”
― William Blake vs. the World
― William Blake vs. the World
Lisa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
4 books
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15 friends
1,606 books
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16 friends
174 books
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27 friends
243 books
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24 friends
398 books
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34 friends
37 books
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6 friends
506 books
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86 friends
856 books
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1 friend
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Non-fiction, Romance, Science, Spirituality, and Travel
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