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“Dr. Girum later told me, “Yes, I know, it’s just one patient. There are so many patients, and Henry is just one. Why should we move mountains to save one patient? Because he is one person. A person, you understand? And anyway, what if he can be the first of many?”

Excerpt From
Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green

“Why must we treat what are obviously systemic problems as failures of individual morality?”

Excerpt From
Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green

“. The idea of becoming sick in order to look healthy or beautiful speaks to how profoundly consumptive beauty ideals still shape the world we share.”

Excerpt From
Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green

r u telling me my eating disorder which was due to beauty standards stemmed from fucking tuberculosis 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Imagining someone as more than human does much the same work as imagining them as less than human: Either way, the ill are treated as fundamentally other because the social order is frightened by what their frailty reveals about everyone else’s”

Excerpt From
Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green

Before I disclose my opinions, or there lack of opinions. It is to be noted that I am reading this book with my dear friend Dayita, so no matter the result or the outcome. I will most certainly be enjoying this book altogether in the end.

Which is a bit of a conundrum right now, because I am enjoying this book a lot.

saw this and wondered if this was the same John green who wrote “turtles all the way down” because this sounds exactly what that character would say