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“In some ways, pain is the opposite of language... ‘English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache.. The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.’ … And so we assume it isn’t real.

“I guess we have more control when we have all the details, don’t we?”

“This is the great paradox of our time: we can decode the genome, but we can’t seem to treat the sick.”