Rita Ree

“What they hope, what they expect, what they deserve, is that we take the time to listen, because the act of listening is therapeutic in itself. When we do it right, we learn details that make us better doctors for the next patient. The residents may not get this yet. They are focused on diagnosis and treatment, on technology, on scales, titers, doses, ratios, elevations, and deficiencies. All well and good, I tell them, but don’t forget to listen.”
― Allan H. Ropper, Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease

“Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“To become a good clinical neurologist, you have to be intensely interested by what the brain does, how it works, how it breaks down.”
― Allan Ropper, Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain

“At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.”
― Oliver Sacks