“In that moment, all my occasions of failed empathy came rushing back to me: the times I had pushed discharge over patient worries, ignored patients’ pain when other demands pressed. The people whose suffering I saw, noted, and neatly packaged into various diagnoses, the significance of which I failed to recognize—they all returned, vengeful, angry, and inexorable.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“When there is no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon’s only tool.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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